ACS-PRF Workshop
June 18 - June 25, 2003 ◊
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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[Overview]
[Program]
[Instructors]
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Larry Dalton has authored approximately six encyclopedia chapters related to photonic, electronic and magnetic materials. He has lectured at numerous workshops in this area and in the area of nanostructured materials. He is a central instructor in the course offering as the University of Washington Ph.D. in Nanotechnology program and most specifically is responsible for the coverage of topics related to electronics and photonics. He has been one of the most highly ranked (by student evaluation) instructors at both the University of Washington and the University of Southern California (with student ratings of 4.0/5.0 in Freshman Chemistry). He is an acknowledged authority on electro-optic materials and on the topics of nanoelectronics and nanophotonics. He serves as Director of the National Science Foundation Science & Technology Center on Materials & Devices for Information Technology Research. |
| Seth Marder is an internationally recognized expert in the area of nonlinear optical materials. His numerous articles in Science and Nature have significantly influenced the chemistry community and he organized the first conference (an ACS Symposium) in the area of nonlinear optics emphasizing the role played by chemists in this field. He is particularly known for his ability to communicate across disciplines and for elucidating the role played by synthetic chemistry in driving innovation in modern electronics and photonics. He will provide students with a critical overview of concepts involving the synthesis and processing of electroactive materials and in the fabrication of 3-D electronic and photonic circuits by techniques such as two-photon lithography and specialized reactive ion etching techniques. |
| Neal Armstrong is an internationally recognized analytical/physical chemist with expertise in the development of new electronic and photonic materials. He is a leader in surface and interface characterization of these materials. Professor Armstrong is also an active innovator in the area of chemical education reform both at the University of Arizona and nationally. He is the director of an STC effort to develop vertically and horizontally web-based educational modules relevant to materials and devices in information technology and introductory optics. He has made a study of the education resources available in the area of electronic and photonic materials and will provide some insights into what is available currently, and what will become available as a result of the STC efforts. He will help students mine literature and web-based information resources. He brings experience from the optical sciences Ph.D. program at the University of Arizona. |
| Alan Heeger is the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and certainly one of the founders of the modern field of electroactive organic materials. He is internationally recognized as an exceptional lecturer with the ability both to stimulate high interest and clearly convey lasting knowledge with respect to the complex topics of modern electronics and photonics. |
| Christos Dimitrakopoulos is a well-recognized pioneer of the emerging field of organic electronics. Being from IBM T. J. Watson Laboratory, he brings an important industrial perspective to the summer school lecturers. |
| Howard Katz (AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lucent) is likewise one of the pioneers of organic electronics and has contributed to the successful Lucent/E-INK collaboration. He brings the perspective of the organic and inorganic synthetic chemist to the field of organic electronics. |
| Jean Frechet, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and recipient of numerous ACS Awards, is a well-recognized contributor to both electronic and photonic technologies. He is also recognized as a pioneer of dendrimer chemistry. He will provide critical insight into how this powerful synthetic methodology can be applied to a number of applications in photonics, electronics, and optoelectronics. |
| Jean Luc Bredas is an internationally-recognized theorist in the area of quantum chemistry. His calculations have guided rational design of an array of electronic, photonic and optoelectronic materials. He will provide insight into the role of quantum mechanics in developing materials and devices for information technology. |
| Bruce Robinson is well recognized for his theoretical contributions to statistical mechanics, which have impacted magnetics, electronics, and optics. He will help participants to understand the role that intermolecular electrostatic interactions and applied forces play in defining nanoscale molecular order and thus electronic and photonic properties. |
| Scott Chambers is a leader in the area of spintronics (which uses both spin and electron charge to store information) and may be the first individual to realize a practical spintronics material operating at room temperature. He also brings the experience of a career in a national laboratory to our summer school participants. |
| Natia Frank is a new junior faculty member at the University of Washington who is also interested in spintronics and brings special expertise into the role that synthesis (including the synthesis of nanostructured materials) plays in developing materials for spintronics. She has a strong interest in promoting the role of women in science and engineering on the UW campus and nationally. |
| Samson Jenekhe is an expert in polymer and macromolecular synthesis and is known for his work on phase-separating block copolymers, organic light emitting diode materials and organic photovoltaics. His lectures complement those of Frechet, Xia, etc on emphasizing the toolbox available to the chemist for fabricating nanostructured materials for dramatically improved photonic and electronic performance. |
| Younan Xia, a Packard Fellow, is well-known for his work in soft lithography, microcontact printing, and development of photonic bandgap materials. He is a central lecturer in the Nanotechnology Ph.D. program at UW with particular emphasis on active and passive photonic materials. |
| Robert Metzger is one of the pioneers of nanoelectronics and is particularly noted for his work on unimolecular rectifiers. He is also recognized as an exceptional classroom instructor. |
| Axel Scherer is known for pioneering silicon photonics and in particular the development of novel photonic bandgap devices. He and Professor Dalton have frequently appeared on the same professional program at workshops featuring the impact of both organic and inorganic materials. He will help participants appreciate that semiconductor materials impact both electronics and photonics and these functions can be integrated on the same chip. |
| Paras Prasad is a well-recognized leader in the area of photonics and the text by Prasad and Williams is essentially the bible of organic nonlinear optical materials. He leads the DoD MURI on nanophotonics and nanoelectronics and has become a leading advocate for nanophotonics particularly bionanophotonics. |
