News/Updates
8/06/2009 - Final Programme Now Online
The Final Conference Programme Now Online
The updated programme for ICOC 2009 is now available. Please click on the link below to view it.
>>> Final ICOE 2009 Programme <<<
28/04/2009 - Registration Open & Provisional Programme
Conference Registration & Provisional Programme Now Online
Registration
Conference registration is now online via the University of Liverpool Online Store (Link) . Within the store there are items listed as follows. When an item is purchased you will be asked for any dietary requirements you have for the lunches and conference dinner.
- Full Conference Registration Fee (£270)
- PhD Student Conference Registration (Free)
- Liverpool Football Club Stadium and Museum Tour (£10)
Important Note - In order to be eligable for a free ICOE pass PhD studenst must be able to show thier valid Student Identification details at the ICOE reception desk.
17/04/2009 - Important Hotel Reservation Details
Adelphi Hotel and The Liner Hotel Reservation Codes
For those of you who are planning on staying at either the Adelphi Hotel or the Liner Hotel please see below for the corresponding booking codes and information.
Adelphi Hotel
Booking reference Number - LIAD1469
Simply phone the hotel (+44 (0)151 709 7200), ask for Miriam Moran and quote the reference code stated above. It is advised to book before 15th May to guarantee a room.
The Liner Hotel
Booking reference Number - UNI1406
Phone the hotel (+44 (0)151 709 7050), and quote the reference code stated above. It is advised to book as soon as possible.
24/03/2009 - Final Submission Deadline - 27th March 2009
Final Deadline Approaching & Invited Paper
It is a policy of ICOE to invite a talk on an important achievement of the previous year. In 2008 Savas Tay from Arizona spoke on holograms produced by organic electronics and in the previous year Hagen Klauk talked about his self assembled CMOS. For the third year the talk is again based on a Nature paper and will be given by Simon Mathijssen and the detailed abstract is below:
Self-Assembly in organic LEDs and FETs
Simon Mathijssen, Edsger Smits, Paul van Hal, Ton van den Biggelaar, Monja Kaiser, Bert de Boer, Sergei Ponomarenko, Martijn Kemerink, Rene Janssen, Dago de Leeuw
Self assembly, the autonomous organisation of components into patterns and structures without human intervention is the ultimate technology for mass production of large area electronics.
First we demonstrate SAMFETs, field-effect transistors where the semiconductor is a monolayer spontaneously formed on the gate dielectric. In order to form a conducting path in between the source and drain electrode, the molecules in the self-assembled monolayer (SAM) should be intimately connected. Any structural imperfection as voids or grain boundaries leads to potential barriers and, hence, to a deteriorated charge carrier mobility. In addition the nature of the electrical contact is crucial. Formation of an effective injecting electrode to a single layer of molecules has proven to be a historical challenge.
We will show that the SAMFET consists of a semiconducting monolayer. The electrical connectivity between the molecules is inferred from electrical transport measurements as well as the local surface potential as determined from scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM) measurements. To elucidate the efficient injection of charge carriers in the SAM, the critical region where the SAM meets the edges of the electrode was imaged with transmission electron microscopy. Morphological studies and SKPM measurements substantiate that the prerequisites for efficient charge transport in a field-effect transistor are fulfilled; we observe long-range connectivity together with an intimate contact between the semiconductor and electrodes.
Furthermore we applied self-assembly to produce patterned OLEDs with micro-contact printing (μCP) self-assembled monolayers. Here SAMs with opposite dipole moments change the local work function and hence the injection, which results in a patterned light emission. The local work function is analyzed using scanning Kelvin probe microscopy. The SKPM measurements together with optical micrograph images of the patterned OLEDs demonstrate a direct correlation between the local work function and light emission.
In summary, we show the incorporation of SAMs in organic field effect transistors and light-emitting diodes. In the first case, the monolayer is acting as the semiconductor, in the latter as an injection modifier.
2/03/2009 - Final CALL - Deadline extended - 27th March 2009
ICOE'09 - Announcement
The Final Call for abstracts for ICOE(09) runs from 2nd March to 27th March 09 at Liverpool University. PhD postgrads come free. The conference runs from 15th to 17th June. There are special offers on Easyjet for flights to Liverpool: do your booking soon. This website includes hotel details. It includes the world famous Adelphi Hotel of Titanic fame at the conference rate where the Conference Dinner will be held. The estimated number of abstracts is estimated to be 17% higher than last year so overall acceptance rate is likely to be lower. The cut-off point is likely to be before the final deadline. Some oral presentations are reserved for the second call. There will be up to 50 poster places.
Among the invited talks are:
Richard Friend (Cambridge): PV
Stephen Chou (Princeton) : Nanoimprint
Jan Genoe (IMEC): Circuits and RFID
Jiro Kasahara ( just out of Sony)
Plus 6 others which will appear on this website with abstracts soon.
12/02/2009 - Call For Papers
6th International Conference on Organic Electronics
June 15th, 16th and 17th 2009
The Programme Committee of ICOE agreed overwhelmingly that they are happy for the 2009 meeting to be held at the city centre campus in Liverpool. Liverpool is a world heritage site, and was the European City of Culture for 2008, and there will be the opportunity to visit the English lakes and the Welsh mountains and castles. There are also direct flights and boats to Ireland.
The conference dinner and accommodation is at the Adelphi Hotel: the magnificent central hall being the model of the main hall of the Titanic and where much of the most recent movie was filmed. Accommodation at the Adelphi Hotel and is about €70, about 10 minutes walk to the conference alongside one of our two great cathedrals.
For the young at heart the University is at the centre of the region where the Beatles worked and lived and where there are still many memories and memorials including a museum.
The reduced cost of financing ICOE will enable us to allow those students registered for PhDs to come free of charge. For other delegates who are unable to meet the cost of fees it may also be possible to reduce or remove fees (provisionally £270) completely.
Cheap flights to Liverpool John Lennon Airport (25 minutes by taxi to Conference and hotel) are available from Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelona and many other cities of Europe. Book early.
The deadline for papers is the 28th of February. A template can be downloaded from here. They should be sent to icoe09@liverpool.ac.uk.
We have keynote speakers from California, Japan, S.Korea and Europe.
Workshops will be held, on the first morning of the conference, covering circuit design, formulation of materials, and imprinting. Others are being arranged.
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