报告人介绍：Thuc-QuyenNguyen is the Director of the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids andDistinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry atthe University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research interests areorganic semiconductors, sustainability, bioelectronics, device physics oforganic solar cells, ratchets, transistors, and photodetectors.

Recognition for her research includesOffice of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, National Science FoundationCAREER Award, 2008 Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, Alfred Sloan ResearchFellows, National Science Foundation American Competitiveness and InnovationFellows, Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award, Fellow of the RoyalSociety of Chemistry, Hall of Fame - Advanced Materials, Beaufort VisitingScholar, St John’s College (Cambridge University), 2015-2019 World’s MostInfluential Scientific Minds; Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in MaterialsScience by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics, Fellow of the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Wilhelm Exner Medal fromAustria, de Gennes Prize in Materials Chemistry from the Royal Society ofChemistry, Suffrage Science Award, French National Centre for ScientificResearch (CNRS) Ambassador in Chemical Sciences, Henry H. Storch Award inEnergy Chemistry from the American Chemical Society, Fellow of the UnitedStates National Academy of Inventors, Fellow of the European Academy ofSciences, and Elected Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.

报告摘要：Organic semiconductors(OSCs) are a class of carbon-based materials comprising of alternate single anddouble bonds (conjugated pi-bonds). They can be synthesized to have band gapsfrom the UV to the near infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. OSCsare attractive due to their unique properties: light weight, mechanicalflexibility, low cost, low-temperature synthesis and processing, and simplefabrication methods such as roll-to-roll coating, spray coating or ink-jetprinting into desired size and shape. Such materials are expected to form thebasis of new emerging technologies — called the Organic Electronics. OSCs havebeen implement in commercial products such as displays and lightings and havepotential applications in transistors, solar cells, photodetectors,thermoelectrics, ratchets, sensors, neuromorphic computing, and bioelectronics.In this talk, I will highlight the development of OSCs for applications inorganic photovoltaics and organic photodetectors.