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Visit of Pr. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen to the IMS Laboratory

The IMS Laboratory welcomes the outstanding Pr. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen for a lecture about Organic Semiconductors for Emerging Technologies on March 7 at 10 am, ENSMAC (amphitheater 1).

CNRS Chemistry launched its unique ambassadors program « Les Ambassadeurs de CNRS Chimie », which invites distinguished international scientists to embark on a conference tour across CNRS laboratories.
This initiative offers our researchers a valuable platform to engage with global experts, exchange insights and ideas, foster professional networks, and remain at the cutting edge of scientific innovation and technological advancements.

In this context, Pr. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen is invited at the IMS Laboratory in March 2025.
She is one of the world’s leading scientists in the area of organic and hybrid electronics. Her findings have profoundly sculpted the way we think about organic semiconductors for applications in transistors and solar energy conversion.

Pr. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen will give a lecture about Organic Semiconductors for Emerging Technologies on March 7 at 10 am, ENSMAC (amphitheater 1), University of Bordeaux.

Abstract:

Organic semiconductors (OSCs) are a class of carbon-based materials comprising of alternate single and double bonds (conjugated pi-bonds). They can be synthesized to have band gaps from the UV to the near infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. 
OSCs are attractive due to their unique properties: light weight, mechanical flexibility, low cost, low-temperature processing, and simple fabrication methods such as roll-to-roll coating, spray coating or ink-jet printing into desired size and shape. Such materials are expected to form the basis of new emerging technologies — called the Organic Electronics. 
OSCs have been implement in commercial products such as displays and lightings and have potential applications in transistors, solar cells, photodetectors, thermoelectrics, ratchets, sensors, neuromorphic computing, and bioelectronics. 

In this talk, Pr. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen will discuss two topics: 

  • the development of OSC for application in organic photovoltaics 
  • the development of water-soluble OSCs for organic electrochemical transistors and charge injection layers in organic electronics. 

She will highlight how chemical structures and processing conditions can be used to tune the materials properties and therefore the device performance. 
The results from these studies provide design guidelines for new generation of carbon-based semiconductors for applications in emerging technologies.

Biography:

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen is the Director of the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 
Nguyen received her B.S. (1997), M.S. (1998), and Ph.D. (2001) degrees in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles under the guidance of Professor Benjamin Schwartz. 
From 2001-2004, she was a postdoc in the Department of Chemistry and the Nanocenter at Columbia University working with Nobel Laureate Louis Brus and Professor Colin Nuckolls on molecular self-assembly, nanoscale characterization and devices. She also spent time at IBM Research Center at T. J. Watson (Yorktown Heights, NY) working with Richard Martel and Phaedon Avouris on molecular electronics. She joined the faculty of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at UCSB in 2004. 
Her research interests are organic semiconductors, bioelectronics, device physics of organic solar cells, ratchets, transistors, and photodetectors, and sustainability. 
She has co-authored over 315 publications and 3 book chapters that received over 40,000 citations (H-index: 103) and gave over 330 plenary/keynote/invited talks at national and international conferences, universities, and companies.

Website: https://nguyen.chem.ucsb.edu/thuc-quyen-nguyen

ENSMAC will also host a lecture by Pr. Atsushi Wakamiya about Surface Materials for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells.

Atsushi Wakamiya is a Professor at the Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University. His research interests include physical organic chemistry and materials chemistry.
Pr. Atsushi Wakamiya published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers and 60 patent applications. His discoveries led to the birth of Ene-Coat technologies, a start-up company that now boasts 100 employees working in the area of solar energy conversion using perovskites materials.

For more information about this event, please contact Lionel Hirsch (IMS Laboratory), Guillaume Wantz (IMS Laboratory) or Dario Bassani (ISM Bordeaux)

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