BIMORE SUMMER SCHOOL 2007
San Benedetto del Tronto

Palms and national flag of Italy, facing the arrival of a thunderstorm.

Sunday 27 May
(OPTO) Eletronics Devices: approaching the Single Molecular Limit

TIME TABLE

Molecular Electronics: switching for logic and memory in the post-CMOS era
Heike Riel, IBM Research Laboratories, Rüschlikon, Switzerland
General Introduction into post-CMOS challenges + Nanowires in molecular electronics.

Molecular Electronics
Emanuel Lörtscher, IBM Research Laboratories, Rüschlikon, Switzerland

Theory of Single Molecule Conduction and Switching.
Fabian Pauly, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

Ab initio description of the electronic transport in single-molecule junctions.
Juan Carlos Cuevas, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

Monday 28 May
Manageing Science: the skills for success in an interdisciplinary environment

„The nature of written science: transferring scientific results to publications&rdquo
Fabio Pulizzi, Associate Editor for Nature Materials, Nature Publishing Group, London, (UK).

Workshop: writing a scientific abstract.
Fabio Pulizzi

Light induced molecular orientation.
Andrzej Miniewicz, Wroclaw Institute of Technology, Poland.

Femtosecond Spectroscopy in low–dimensional carbon based materials.
Guglielmo Lanzani, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano.

Tuesday 29 May
Molecular Scale Integration in Nature: Antenna Complexes in bacterial Photosynthesis

„Antenna Complexes in bacterial photosynthesis„.
Richard Cogdell, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.

„Single molecule studies with bacterial antenna complexes”.
Jürgen Köhler, Universität Bayreuth, Germany.

Spectroscopic Investigations of Switching processes

„Correlated spectro–microscopy of nanoscale architectures”.
Michele Muccini, CNR-ISMN Bologna, Italy.

Sub-Meeting Training Board: harmonizing the career development plans + planning of training actions.

Wednesday 30 May
Optoelectronic switching functionality by chemical synthesis

„Acetylenic scaffolding with dithiafulvenes, tetrathiafulvalenes, and azulenes:Synthesis of novel components for molecular electronics”.
Mogens B. Nielsen, University of Copenhagen.

„Supramolecular Chemistry as a tool in molecular electronics”.
Jan O. Jeppesen, Southern Denmark University Odense, Denmark.

„Dynamic holography in organic materials”
Jaroslaw Mysliwiec, Wroclaw Institute of Technology Wroclaw, Poland.

„The BIMORE RTN”.
Larry Lüer, Politecnico di Milano.

Sub-meeting Scientific Panel: first experience and projections for next half year; planning of first annual meeting.

Thursday 31 May
The Femto Workshop

Thematic workshop: Excited state spectroscopy for device technology.
L. Lüer, T. Virgili, Politecnico di Milano.

Afternoon visit to Ascoli Piceno.

Friday 1 June
Electrooptical Switching in Devices

„Molecular Switching Based on Charge - Dipole Interactions”
Stanislaw Nespurek, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.

Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, „Nanoscale architecture of organic matter for electronics as seen by AFM”.
Adam Tracz

Closing remarks

Saturday 2 June
Departure

Specific Information

31th Mai 2007
The Femto Workshop: Guglielmo Lanzani, Larry Lüer, Tersilla Virgili

This small workshop serves as an introduction into ultrafast excited state spectroscopy and its use for device physics. Upon a short look at basic quantum mechanics in π – conjugated systems, we will find that the excited states of many small molecules and polymers, studied in this field, can be understood on a common footing.

The interplay of charged and neutral excited states is one of the fundamentals to molecular optoelectronics. We show how this interplay can be traced by femtosecond spectroscopy.
After the presentation of the measurement principle, we choose a typical example to demonstrate how the measured results are interpreted to obtain selective kinetic information on the various photoexcitations.

This will demonstrate where the method can be useful within the BIMORE network, and where complications are to be expected. We will continue with examples that adress the elementary photophysics in devices, like charge carrier formation and motion, and the study of morphology and conformational changes.

In the final part, we show that femtosecond spectroscopy can be applied directly to devices. We demonstrate how the results have been used to improve the performance of electrooptical switches and nonlinear photodiodes.

The workshop serves as an introduction to the field for researchers who don't necessarily have a background in solid state physics. Its further goal is to encourage BIMORE researchers to consider a two-week secondment at Politecnico di Milano.

General Information

San Benedetto del Tronto
Local Organizing Committee:

Guglielmo Lanzani
Larry Lüer
Tersilla Virgili

Dipartimento di Fisica
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza L. da Vinci 32
20133 Milano
Italy

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