Photonics, Optoelectronics, Biosensing, & Nanoscience Research
Welcome to Dr. Alex Jen's Reseach Group homepage! Our group utilizes molecular, polymeric, and biomacromolecular self-assembly to create ordered arrangement of organic and inorganic functional materials for photonics, opto-electronics, nanomedicine, and nanotechnology. We employ the "molecular engineering” approach to tailor size, shape, sequence, and functionality of organic/hybrid functional materials and explore their applications.
Organic Electronics Functional Block Co-Polymers
Contact Info:
Alex K-Y. Jen
Office: 302F Roberts Hall
Telephone: (206) 543-2626
Fax: (206)-543-3100
Email: ajen@u.washington.edu
Links:
STC: Materials & Devices for Information Technology Research
DURINT: Defense University Research Initiative on Nanotechnology
MLSC: Microscale Life Sciences Center
GEMSEC: Genetically Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center
Recent highlighted papers:
Advanced Materials 2008: Polymer Solar Cells That Use Self-Assembled-Monolayer- Modified ZnO/Metals as Cathodes
JACS 2008: Assembly of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes via Drop-Casting onto a UV-Patterned Photosensitive Monolayer
Nature Photonics 2007: Hybrid polymer/sol–gel waveguide modulators with exceptionally large electro–optic coefficients
JACS 2007: Ultralarge and Thermally Stable Electro-Optic Activities from Supramolecular Self-Assembled Molecular Glasses
ACS Publications Hot Papers May 2007 #4: Pyrroline Chromophores for Electro-Optic
Nature Nanotechnology: Disk-like molecules can be self-assembled into nanowires and crosslinked to form robust structures
Photonics Spectra: Quantum Dot LEDs Incorporate Thermally Polymerized Hole Transport Layer
MRS Bulletin: CdSe/CdS QD-LEDs Fabricated
Using a Thermally Polymerized
Hole-Transport Layer
Nature Materials: Terahertz all-optical modulation in a silicon–polymer hybrid system