International Thematic School on Excitonics for photonic applications
Les Houches Physics School, Chamonix Mont Blanc Valley, France
April 16-27, 2018
Organic semiconductors have become important players in photonics within the last decades : they enabled flexible or printable devices, such as OLED displays or organic solar cells. But in the realm of materials that can be chemically tuned and solution-processed, there have been some newcomers in the field recently : hybrid perovskites or colloidal semiconducting nanoparticles for instance.
Besides the fact that all these materials have common applications in the emission and detection of Light, and have similar processing/characterization techniques, these are excitons who play here a central role in the light/material interaction.
Because the field is exciting and new, there is a need to make a pause and get back to fundamental questions. What are excitons in those systems ? How can we characterize them and harvest them in photonic devices ?
16 outstanding lecturers will cover a broad spectrum going from the theory of excitons and their characterization to the most advanced excitonic photonic devices :
- Chihaya Adachi (Kyushu University, Japan)
- Natalie Banerji (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
- Sergei Baranovski (Marburg University, Germany)
- Jérôme Cornil (Mons University, Belgium)
- Emmanuelle Deleporte (ENS Paris Saclay, France)
- Vladimir Dyakonov (Würzburg University, Germany)
- Jacky Even (INSA Rennes, France)
- Mark Fox (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Noel Giebink (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
- Stéphane Kéna-Cohen (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
- Emmanuel Lhuillier (UPMC Paris, France)
- Xavier Marie (INSA Toulouse, France)
- Thuc-Quyen Nguyen (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
- Peter Reiss (CEA, France)
- Graham Turnbull (Univ. of St Andrews, UK)
- Richard Williams (Wake Forrest University, USA)
Application deadline (short motivation letter + abstract for a poster) : January 22, 2018
More information on the website of the thematic school.
