Arnold Tamayo

Currently, there is much interest in the fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices based on processable, low-cost conjugated organic materials so called “organic electronics” technology. This research area includes devices such as field effect transistors, non-volatile memory, light emitting devices and solar cells. Research in the Tamayo group focuses on the chemical design, synthesis and characterization of such materials including conjugated organic, metallo-organic and polymeric materials that can be used as the active materials in these devices. The availability of new thermally, electrochemically and photochemically stable and solution processable materials that exhibit novel properties in both solution and film including high absorptivity, high luminescence quantum yields, ability to self-assemble into ordered structures, and high charge (hole or electron) carrier mobilities is crucial for the success of these devices.