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Nobel Laureate to deliver keynote address at engineering conference

3:30 p.m., Sept. 22, 2003--Alan J. Heeger, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry and one of the co-founders of the field of electroactive organic materials, will be the featured speaker when the University of Delaware College of Engineering holds a conference on Electronic Applications for Organic Materials Oct. 9-10 in the Trabant University Center in Newark.

Heeger will deliver the keynote address at 9 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 9, and will discuss recent progress on field effect transistors and light-emitting diodes fabricated from semi-conducting polymers.

During the two-day conference, which is part of the College of Engineering’s New Frontiers series, preeminent scientists from industry and academe will consider the flexibility inherent in the molecular design and synthesis of numerous types of organic materials that exhibit electronic, optical and chemical activity.

Existing and envisioned electronic applications for these organic materials include various forms of “plastic” transistors and solar cells, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), liquid crystal displays, electroluminescent displays and polymer integrated circuits, as well as applications of novel conjugated organic materials.

In addition to Heeger, who is a member of the physics department at the University of California Santa Barbara, speakers include Ali Afzali of IBM, Zhenan Bao of Lucent Technologies, Graciela B. Blanchet of the DuPont Co., Bill Beckenbaugh of Konarka Technologies, Paul Calvert of the University of Arizona, Ananth Dodabalapur of the University of Texas at Austin, Mary E. Galvin of the University of Delaware, Wayne Gibbons of Elsicon, Beng S. Ong of Xerox, Marie O’Regan of DuPont Displays, John R. Reynolds the University of Florida, Ching Tang of Kodak, Michael J. Therien of the University of Pennsylvania and Mark Thompson of the University of Southern California.

For more information, to register or to sponsor or exhibit at the conference, visit the web site at [http://www.engr.udel.edu/outreach/ElectroOrganicMaterials.html] or contact Kathy Werrell at (302) 831-4863 or via e-mail at [werrell@udel.edu].

Article by Neil Thomas

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