DETROIT-Wayne State University is hosting its next seminar in the John P. Oliver Nano@Wayne Seminar Series on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 2:30 p.m. in the Welcome Center Auditorium, located at 42 W. Warren on the northwest corner of Woodward and Warren Avenues. The seminar is free and open to the public. To register, send your name and business affiliation via email to ab6925@wayne.edu.
Next week's seminar will feature Arthur P. Ramirez, Ph.D., consulting member of staff at LGS Bell Labs Innovations. Ramirez will present, "Electronics Based on Crystalline Organic Semiconductors." According to Ramirez, organic semiconductors are widely discussed for applications requiring large area and low processing cost. Thin film organics are already used in applications not requiring high speed or efficiency, such as LED displays. To understand the materials limits of such semiconductors, Ramirez and his research team study fundamental transport processes in devices made from single crystals of small molecules. His presentation will discuss the implications of this work on solar energy.
Ramirez received his B.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Yale University. He has held high level positions at Bell Labs, Alamos National Laboratory among others, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society, member of the Solid State Sciences Committee of the National Academies of Science, and has published over 200 papers in refereed journals.
A reception will immediately follow the presentation. Parking is available in structure #3 for $3.50. Visit http://campusmap.wayne.edu/?map=parking for directions. To view the list of future seminars in this series, visit http://research.wayne.edu/nano/seminars/.
Wayne State University is one of the nation's pre-eminent public research universities in an urban setting, ranking in the top 50 in R & D expenditures of all public universities by the National Science Foundation. Through its multidisciplinary approach to research and education, and its ongoing collaboration with government, industry and other institutions, the university seeks to enhance economic growth and improve the quality of life in the city of Detroit, state of Michigan and throughout the world.