SUPERIOR

SUPramolEculaR functional nanoscale archItectures for Organic electronics: a multi-site initial tRaining action

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The SUPERIOR Network is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008. The 4-year training and research network started the 1^st of October of 2009 and will run until the 31^st of September 2013. 

Openings: 6 PhD and 3 Post Doc positions

SUPERIOR aims at providing top-quality cross-disciplinary and supra-sectoral training to a pool of promising young researchers, in an area at the interface between Supramolecular Chemistry, Materials- and Nano-Science, Physics and Electrical Engineering. SUPERIOR is designed to generate new scientific and technological knowledge by combining supramolecularly-engineered nanostructured materials (SENMs), mostly based on organic semiconductors, with tailor-made interfaces to solid substrates and electrodes, for fabricating prototypes of optoelectronic devices. We are particularly interested in developing multiscale SENMs for transistors (FETs), in-plane diodes single-photon emitters, and especially solar cells (PVDs) and organic light-emitting diodes, OLEDs.

The specific training and research objectives are:

1. Supramolecular synthetic chemistry of electrically/optically 1D and 2D (macro)molecules.
2. Hierarchical self-organisation of multifunctional SENMs at surfaces. Multiscale SPMs studies of physico-chemical properties.
3. Time-resolved photophysical studies of single-molecules and SENMs.
4. Time-resolved spectroscopy of materials and devices.
5. Modelling the geometric and electronic structures and the optical properties of SENMs.
6. Advanced devices processing/(nano)fabrication.
7. Formation of controlled interfaces of SENMs with substrate and electrodes.
8. Devices I: FETs – Measurement of charge mobility in stacks, also upon photodoping.
9. Devices II: PVDs – Addressing the charge collection problem.
10. Devices III: Emissive devices – Single photon emitters and OLEDs.