Academic Program

Notes to Oral Presenters
Notes to Poster Presenters


14 Jun | 15 Jun | 16 Jun | 17 Jun | 18 Jun | 19 Jun | Download of Conference Booklet

14 Jun (Sun) - Pre-conference Tutorial (Seminar on Current Trends and Status of
Organic Light Emitting Diode and Organic/ Hybrid Solar Cell)

Time Event Venue
08:30-17:00 Registration Lobby, G/F
09:00-10:30 Talk: "Optical, Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites"

Valy Vardeny (The University of Utah)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
10:30-11:00 Coffee break Lobby, G/F
11:00-12:30 Talk: "Plasmonic Organic Solar Cells and LEDs"

Wallace C.H. Choy (The University of Hong Kong)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
12:30-14:00 Lunch (Self-arranged)  
14:00-15:30 Talk: "The Physics and Chemistry of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence"

Andy Monkman (University of Durham)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
15:30-16:00 Coffee break Lobby, G/F
16:00-17:30 Talk: "OLED Applications: Opportunities and Challenges"

Furong Zhu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
 
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15 Jun (Mon)

Time Event Venue
08:30-17:00 Conference Registration Lobby, G/F
08:50-09:00 Opening Remarks by Prof Ching Tang
(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
Organic Metamaterial and Lasers
Session Chair: Kam Sing Wong (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
09:00-09:45 Plenary Talk #1: "Molecular Metamaterials: Using Polymer Conformation to Define Photonic Nanostructures"

Donal Bradley (Imperial College London)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
09:45-10:15 Invited Talk #2: "Organic & Hybrid Photonic Crystals: From Lasers to Sensors"

Davide Comoretta (Università di Genova)
10:15-10:45 Invited Talk #3: "Optical Gain Property Investigation of Novel Green-yellow Emission Polymer F8F5BT and Its Blends with PFO"

Ruidong Xia
(Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
10:45-11:15 Coffee break Lobby, G/F
TADF and RISC I
Session Chair: Howe-Siang Tan (Nanyang Technological University)
11:15-11:45 Invited Talk #4: "Highly Efficient Organic Light Emitting Diodes Based on Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence"

Chihaya Adachi (Kyushu University)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
11:45-12:15 Invited Talk #5: "Effect of Singlet Triplet Recycling in the Charge Transfer State Manifold and Molecular Geometry on Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence"

Andy Monkman (University of Durham)
12:15-12:30 General Talk #6: "How the Emitter-host Conformational and Electronic Interaction Can Determine TADF Performance"

David Graves (University of Durham)
12:30-14:00 Lunch at Chinese Garden Restaurant
(For registered participants only)
G/F, HKUST (near Lifts 13-15
2D Electronic Spectroscopy
Session Chair: Andy Monkman (University of Durham)
14:00-14:30 Invited Talk #7: "Ultrafast Multi-dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy and Its Applications to the Study of Light Harvesting Complexes"

Howe-Siang Tan (Nanyang Technological University)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
14:30-15:00 Invited Talk #8: "Coherent Charge Transfer in Organic Photovoltaics Probed by Ultrafast Spectroscopies"

Margherita Maiuri (Princeton University)
15:00-15:30 Invited Talk #9: "Two-dimensional Photocurrent Excitation Coherence Spectroscopy in Polymer: Fullerene Solar Cells"

Carlos Silva (University of Montreal)
15:30-16:00 Invited Talk #10: "Dielectric Effects in Photovoltaic Polymers"

Franky So (University of Florida)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break Lobby, G/F
Exciton Fission / Fusion
Session Chair: Carlo Silva (University of Montreal)
16:30-17:00 Invited Talk #11: "Charge Photogeneration in Donor-acceptor Blends Based on Low Band-gap π-conjugated Copolymers; the Effect of Singlet-fission"

Valy Vardeny (The University of Utah)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
17:00-17:15 General Talk #12: "Triplet State Formation in Low-bandgap Polymer:Fullerene Photovoltaic Blends"

Frédéric Laquai (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
17:15-17:45 Invited Talk #13: "Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics of Singlet Exciton Fission and Triplet Transfer to Inorganic Semiconductors"

Akshay Rao (University of Cambridge)
17:45-18:00 General Talk #14: "Triplet−Triplet Annihilation-Induced Up-Converted Delayed Luminescence in Solid-State Organic Composites: Monitoring Low-Energy Photon Up-Conversion at Low Temperatures"

Panagiotis E. Keivandis (Cyprus University of Technology)
18:00-18:30 Invited Talk #15: "Emitting Dipole Orientation of Phosphorescent Dyes in OLEDs"

Jang joo Kim (Seoul National University)
18:30-20:00 Conference Reception and Poster Session
(Please click here for Notes for Poster Presenters)
Lobby, G/F
 
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16 Jun (Tue)

Time Event Venue
08:30-17:00 Conference Registration Lobby, G/F
Single Molecule
Session Chair: Akshay Rao (University of Cambridge)
09:00-09:45 Plenary Talk #16: "Chromophore Interactions in Conjugated Polymers"

Lewis Rothberg (University of Rochester)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
09:45-10:15 Invited Talk #17: "Energy and Charge Transfer in Single Chain Conjugated Polymers and Oligomers"

Kirk S. Schanze (University of Florida)
10:15-10:45 Invited Talk #18: "Molecular-level Study and Control of Conformation and Photophysics in Conjugated Molecular Complexes"

Martin Vacha (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
10:45-11:15 Coffee break Lobby, G/F
OLED and Light Emitting Materials I
Session Chair: Lewis Rothberg (University of Rochester)
11:15-11:45 Invited Talk #19: "New Strategies Towards Design of Luminescent Metal-Ligand Chromophoric Ensembles, Conjugates and Nano-Assemblies for Sensing and Bioassays"

Vivian Wing Wah Yam (The University of Hong Kong)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
11:45-12:15 Invited Talk #20: "Organic Nanoparticles for Sensing, Imaging and Therapy"

Bin Liu (National University of Singapore)
12:15-12:30 General Talk #21: "Hetero Triplet Fusion in Acene Based Organic Light Emitting Diodes"

Marc Etherington (University of Durham)
12:30-12:45 General Talk #22: "The Effect of Exciplex Formation on the Performance of Organic Light Emitting Diodes"

Hameed A Al Attar (University of Durham)
12:45-14:15 Lunch at Chinese Garden Restaurant
(For registered participants only)
G/F, HKUST
Organic and Hybrid (Perovskite) Solar Cells I
Session Chair: Jiannong Wang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
14:15-14:45 Invited Talk #23: "Photophysical Versus Structural Properties in Hybrid Lead-Halide Perovskites"

Annamaria Petrozza (Istituto Italiano di Technogia)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
14:45-15:15 Invited Talk #24: "Interfacial Exciton Dissociation at Metal/Organic Interface in Organic Solar Cells"

Furong Zhu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
15:15-15:30 General Talk #25: "Small-Molecule Cathode Interfacial Material Based on Phenanthroline Derivative for High-Performance Organic Photovoltaics"

Xuhui Zhu (South China University of Technology)
15:30-15:45 General Talk #26: "Probing the Ultrafast Vibronic Dynamics of Charge Transfer in Organic Photovoltaic Blends"

Andreas C. Jakowetz (University of Cambridge)
15:45-16:15 Invited Talk #27: "From Engineering Interfaces in Soft Electronic Materials to Efficient Perovskite Photovoltaics"

Sergei Tretiak (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
16:15-16:45 Coffee break Lobby, G/F
Spin and Magnetic Field Effect
Session Chair: Martin Vacha (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
16:45-17:15 Invited Talk #28: "Magnetic Field Effect in Organic Semiconductor Devices"

Jiannong Wang
(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
17:15-17:30 General Talk #29: "High Field Magneto-luminescence in Organic Semiconductors"

Eitan Ehrenfreund (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)
17:30-18:00 Invited Talk #30: "Spontaneous Spin Polarization in Charged and Excited Organic Molecules"

Shijie Xie (Shandong University)
18:00-18:30 Invited Talk #31: "Photothermoelectric Effect of Organic Semiconductors in Enabling NIR Detection"

Chongan Di (Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
18:30-18:45 General Talk #32: "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Conformational Effects on Optoelectronic Phenomena in Conjugated Semiconducting Oligomers"

Jack Wildman (Heriot-Watt University)
18:45-19:00 Short break (Coach departs at 19:00 for Conference Banquet)
19:00-21:30 Conference Banquet at Sai Kung (For registered participants only)
 
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17 Jun (Wed)

Time Event Venue
08:30-12:00 Conference Registration Lobby, G/F
Optical and Ultrafast Spectroscopy I
Session Chair: Valy Vardeny (The University of Utah)
09:00-09:45 Plenary Talk #33: "Controlling Cell Functions by Light"

Guglielmo Lanzani (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Politecnico di Milano)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
09:45-10:15 Invited Talk #34: "Developing Advanced Structural Probes to Identify the Dominant Optical Transitions in Donor-Acceptor Copolymers and Their Impact on Photostability"

Ji-seon Kim (Imperial College London)
10:15-10:30 General Talk #35: "Optical Vibrational Control of Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors"

Artem A. Bakulin (University of Cambridge)
10:30-10:45 General Talk #36: "Spontaneous Fluctuation of Transition Dipoles Revealed by Single-molecule Spectroscopy"

Florian Steiner (University of Regensburg)
10:45-11:15 Coffee break Lobby, G/F
Carrier Dynamic and Energy Relaxation
Session Chair: Annamaria Petrozza (Istituto Italiano di Technogia)
11:15-11:45 Invited Talk #37: "Decoherence and Energy Relaxation within Charge Transport Process in Crystalline Organic Semiconductors"

Changqin Wu (Fudan University)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
11:45-12:00 General Talk #38: "Tracking Charge Photogeneration in 3-phase Polymer:Fullerene Blends"

Justin Hodgkiss (Victoria University of Wellington)
12:00-12:15 General Talk #39: "Charge-transfer Dynamics and Vibrational Coherence in Polymer/Fullerene Blends"

Yin Song (University of Toronto)
12:15-12:45 Invited Talk #40: "Time-dependent Wavepacket Diffusive Method and Its Applications to Carrier Quantum Dynamics in Organic Materials"

Yi Zhao (Xiamen University)
12:45-14:00 Lunch at Chinese Garden Restaurant
(For registered participants only)
G/F, HKUST
14:10-14:30 Coach from China Garden Restaurant to HKUST Pier (Boat departs at 14:30)
14:30-18:30 Half-day Boat Tour (For registered participants only)
 
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18 Jun (Thu)

Time Event Venue
TADF and RISC II
Session Chair: Zhigang Shuai (Tsinghua University)
09:00-09:45 Plenary Talk #41: "RISC from High-lying Triplet to Singlet: Optical Probes and Application for OLEDs"

Yuguang Ma (South China University of Technology)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
09:45-10:00 General Talk #42: "Tailored Polymers for Efficient Thermal Activated Delayed Fluorescence. Towards Printable TADF OLEDs"

Fernando B. Dias (University of Durham)
10:00-10:30 Invited Talk #43: "Utilizing the Doublet Emission of Neutral π-radical to Break the 25% Upper Limit of Internal Quantum Efficiency of OLEDs"

Feng Li (Jilin University)
10:30-10:45 General Talk #44: "Exciplex Way From Blue to Red, Novel TADF Emitters"

Przemyslaw Data (University of Durham)
10:45-11:15 Coffee break Lobby, G/F
OLED and Light Emitting Materials II
Session Chair: Patrick Parkinson (University of Manchester)
11:15-11:45 Invited Talk #45: "Modeling Aggregation Effects on Molecular Light-emitting Quantum Efficiency and Spectroscopy"

Zhigang Shuai (Tsinghua University)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
11:45-12:00 General Talk #46: "The Optical Properties of Conjugated Materials and their Aggregates: Towards Imaging of Films and Devices"

Linda Peteanu (Carnegie Mellon University)
12:00-12:30 Invited Talk #47: "Highly Solid-State Emissive Organic Fluorescent Materials"

Wenjing Tian (Jilin University)
12:30-14:00 Lunch at Chinese Garden Restaurant
(For registered participants only)
G/F, HKUST
Organic and Hybrid (Perovskite) Solar Cells II
Session Chair: Kok Wai Cheah (Hong Kong Baptist University)
14:00-14:30 Invited Talk #48: "Putting Organic and Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials to Work for Efficient Solar Energy Conversion"

Shihe Yang
(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
14:30-14:45 General Talk #49: "Modulating Electron - Hole Interaction in a Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskite with Electric Field"

Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
14:45-15:15 Invited Talk #50: "Comprehensive Studies of New Schemes for Enhancing the Carrier Extraction and Light Absorption of Organic/Inorganic Solar Cells"

Wallace C.H. Choy (The University of Hong Kong)
15:15-15:30 General Talk #51: "Impact of Solvent Additive on Transport Properties and Photovoltaic Performance in Polymer: Fullerene Bulk-heterojunction System"

Shu Kong So (Hong Kong Baptist University)
15:30-16:00 Invited Talk #52: "Multi-scale Modeling of Electronic Processes at the DTDCTB/C60 Interfaces for Organic Photovoltaics"

Yuanping Yi (Key laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break Lobby, G/F
Optical and Ultrafast Spectroscopy II
Session Chair: Shihe Yang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
16:30-17:00 Invited Talk #53: "Ultrafast Energy Dynamics in Biomimetic Nanoring Complexes"

Patrick Parkinson (University of Manchester)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
17:00-17:15 General Talk #54: "Ultrafast Broadband Photoluminescence Spectroscopy for Advanced Optoelectronic Materials"

Kai Chen (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, New Zealand)
17:15-17:30 General Talk #55: "Structure-Directed Exciton Dynamics in Templated Porphyrin Nanorings"

Juliane Gong (University of Oxford)
17:30-18:00 Invited Talk #56: "Emerging Organic Optoelectronics Devices"

Kok Wai Cheah (Hong Kong Baptist University)
18:00-18:15 General Talk #57: "Multi-Molecular Conical Intersections in Ultrafast Singlet Exciton Fission"

Andrew J. Musser (University of Cambridge)
18:15-18:30 General Talk #58: "Optically-pumped Lasing and Hot Phonon Bottleneck in Mixed Halide Perovskite Photovoltaic Semiconductors"

Felix Deschler (University of Cambridge)
 
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19 Jun (Fri)

Time Event Venue
Organic and Hybrid (Perovskite) Solar Cells III
Session Chair: Charles Surya (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
09:00-09:30 Invited Talk #59: "Aggregation and Morphology Control Enables Multiple Cases of High-efficiency Polymer Solar Cells"

Henry Yan
(The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
09:30-10:00 Invited Talk #60: "A Multiscale Simulation Framework for Novel Photovoltaic Materials"

Lingyi Meng (Xiamen University)
10:00-10:15 General Talk #61: "Mapping Photoinduced Ionic Migration and Segregation in Mixed-halide Hybrid Perovskites"

Alex J. Barker (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)
10:15-10:30 General Talk #62: "Bimolecular Nature of Fluence Dependent Radiative Recombination Processes in Hybrid Lead Bromide and Iodide Perovskites"

Johannes M. Richter (University of Cambridge)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break Lobby, G/F
Organic and Hybrid (Perovskite) Solar Cells IV
Session Chair: Kam Sing Wong (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
11:00-11:30 Invited Talk #63: "Defect Engineering and the Enhancement of The Power Conversion Efficiency of Perovskite based Solar Cells"

Charles Surya (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
IAS Lecture Theater, G/F
11:30-11:45 General Talk #64: "Local Versus Long-Range Diffusion Effects of Photoexcited States on Radiative Recombination in Organic-Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskites"

Milan Vrućinić (University of Cambridge)
11:45-12:00 General Talk #65: "Photoconductive Cathode Interlayer for Highly Efficient Inverted Polymer Solar Cells"

Zengqi Xie (South China University of Technology)
12:00-12:15 General Talk #66: "Anisotropic Carrier Thermalisation and Morphology-dependent Polarisation Memory in Organometallic Halide Perovskites"

Jasmine Rivett (University of Cambridge)
12:15-12:30 Conference Closing
12:30-14:00 Lunch at Chinese Garden Restaurant
(For registered participants only)
G/F, HKUST
 
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