Molecular Electro-Opto-Spintronics

Mainz, Germany: October 15th - 18th 2019

Molecular electronics originally promised miniaturization of molecular devices using Nature’s smallest building blocks to allow for novel electronic function by simply altering the chemical structure of the molecular component. Molecular electronics has evolved towards a complementary technology to silicon-based electronics, providing functionalities not possible with classical electronic devices. After more than 40 years of experiments, it remains a challenge to rationally design molecule-electrode junctions due the complex interplay between electronic structure and the chemical/supramolecular arrangement of the interfaces. Unlike traditional CMOS electronics, comprehensive design rules for molecular junctions are not available yet. Only bits and pieces have been published scattered across disciplines, including interface engineering, supramolecular chemistry, surface science, computational science, physics, chemistry, optics, biology and micro/nanofabrication. This workshop aims at bringing into the same discussion forum a diverse group of researchers with varied expertise in the areas of molecular electronics and spintronics, nanoscale photonics, plasmonics, and bioelectronics, to map out routes leading to solutions to longstanding problems in integrating molecular junctions in emerging technologies by identifying new materials and device paradigms to optimise device performance, reproducibility and robustness. Such new molecular-scale design rules are needed for potential applications in neuromorphic computing, sensor fusion, biometrics and Industry 4.0.

 

Organizers

Enrique del Barco: University of Central Florida (UCF)
Christian A. Nijhuis: National University of Singapore (NUS)
Damien Thompson: University of Limerick (UL)

Co-Organizer:

Jairo Sinova (JGU)

Invited Speakers

Marco Affronte, CNR Italy Javier Aizpurua, CSIC Spain Jochen Blumberger, University College London Lapo Bogani, Oxford David Cahen, Weizmann Inst. of Science and Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel Salvador Cardona, Instituto de Ciencia Molecular Valencia Enrique del Barco, UCF Orlando Ismael Diez Perez, Kings College London David Egger, TU Munich Jim Greer, University of Nottingham Ningbo China Cunclan Guo, Wuhan University China Yael Hanein, Tel Aviv University Israel Josh Hihath, University of California-Davis Yoon Hyo Jae, Korea University

Masha Kamenetska, Boston University Yuan Li, Tsinghua University Sebastian Loth, University of Stuttgart Richard McCreery, University of Alberta Atindra Nath Pal, Kolkata, India Christian Albertus Nijhuis, National University of Singapore Andrew Pike, Newcastle University David Sanchez, Universitat Illes Balears Spain Guillaume Schull, University Strasbourg Damien Thompson, University of Limerick Herre van der Zant, Delft University of Technology Jaume Veciana, Institut de ciencia de materials Barcelona Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, University Karlsruhe Michael Zharnikov, University Heidelberg