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iWSG I Dec 2008

NNIN International Winter School for Graduate Students (iWSG)

December 2008, IIT Kanpur

Organic Electronics and Optoelectronics

The international Winter School for Graduate Students (iWSG) are organized jointly by NNIN and institutions in third world countries with the goal of promoting international bridge building and understanding by bringing together students and faculty in an intense teaching and societal experience. Each year, 10 or more graduate students and faculty participate in a rigorous course in an emerging and research-intensive interdisciplinary direction that is not part of US graduate curriculums. This lasts six days and includes laboratory sections. This is followed by travel to a rural part of the country where students spend time observing, experiencing and discussing the societal challenges and the part science and technology can play. A large group of students from the host country participate in the teaching part and a smaller group joins in the rural experience.

The 2008 iWSG took place at Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur starting on Dec. 3, 2008 with the societal experience in and around Paralakhemundi at the Orissa-Andhra Pradesh border in southern India. The subject of the course was "Organic Electronics and Optoelectronics". The rural experience focused on tribal living and rural needs.

2008 Student Participants

  • Sharon Gerbode, Cornell University John Gregoire, Cornell University
  • Joy Johnson, MIT
  • Daren Lipomi, Harvard
  • Christopher Lombardo, U. Texas
  • Bradley MacLeod, University of Washington
  • Vladimer Pozdin, Cornell University
  • Chris Scilla, U. Mass.
  • Martin Schubert, RPI
  • Jennifer Smythe, Harvard
  • Kaylie Young, Northwestern
  • Tricia Youngbull, University of Washington

NNIN iWSG 2008 U.S. Faculty

Will Dichtel,
Cornell

Richard Hennig,
Cornell

John Kymissis,
Columbia

Christine
Luscombe,
U. of Washington

George Malliaras,
Cornell

Robert McGinn,
Stanford
Sandip Tiwari,
Cornell
Jaime Wetmore,
ASU

Organic Electronics and Optoelectronics

Organic Electronic Materials Molecular Structure and Bonding
Prof. Richard Hennig, Cornell University

Fundamentals of Organic Electronic Devices
Prof. John Kymissis, Columbia University

Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Conjugated Polymers
Prof. WIll Dichtel, Cornell University

Self-Assembly in Semiconducting Polymers
Prof. Christine Luscombe, University of Washington

Charge injection and transport in organic semiconductors
Prof. George Malliaras, Cornell University

Synthesis of Molecular Oligomeric Compounds for Organic Electronics
Prof. WIll Dichtel, Cornell University

Organic/Inorganic Interfaces in Photovoltaics
Prof. Christine Luscombe, University of Washington

Fabrication of organic electronic devices
Prof. John Kymissis, Columbia University

Organic Semiconductors for Sensor Applications 
Prof. Christine Luscombe, University of Washington

The Role of Ions in Organic Semiconductor Devices
Prof. George Malliaras, Cornell University

Computational Organic Electronics Laboratory
Prof. Richard Hennig, Cornell University

OFETs, Characterization, applications
Prof. John Kymissis, Columbia University

An Introduction to Organic Solar Cells
Prof. S. Sundar Kumar Iyer, IIT-Kanpur

Modelling the Organic Solar Cell
Prof. S. Sundar Kumar Iyer, IIT-Kanpur

Organic Solar Cells
Prof. S. Sundar Kumar Iyer, IIT-Kanpur

OLED: An Introduction to Structures and Principles
Prof. Yashowanta N. Mohapatra

OLED Display
Deepak Gupta

OLED for Lighting
Monica Katiyar

OLED Simulation Lab
Deepak Gupta