Organic, and more recently metal-halide perovskite semiconductors are redefining how functional electronic materials are processed for next-generation optoelectronic devices. Despite their distinct chemistries, these materials share common attributes, including exceptional optoelectronic performance, solution processability, and manufacturing paradigms that are intrinsically lower-cost and more versatile than incumbent inorganic semiconductors. Together, they offer transformative opportunities for sustainable energy technologies, advanced displays, wearable electronics, and emerging bioelectronic platforms. This symposium will connect diverse research communities to address common scientific and technological challenges that limit the translation of these materials from laboratory demonstrations to scalable, reliable technologies, providing a forum to discuss recent advances in materials design, manufacturing, and device processing across organic, perovskite, and hybrid organic inorganic semiconductor systems. Particular emphasis will be placed on the use of earth-abundant materials and low-toxicity solvent systems, directly addressing sustainability and environmental considerations that are increasingly central to emerging technologies. Contributions are welcomed that explore novel processing strategies enabling the transformation of advanced materials into device-relevant forms, alongside forward looking manufacturing concepts and lifecycle analyses of materials and devices. By positioning processing innovation as a unifying framework, this symposium aims to catalyse cross-disciplinary exchange and accelerate the development of sustainable, high-impact optoelectronic technologies
- Processing innovation
- Organic semiconductors
- Perovskite semiconductors
- Hybrid materials
- Sustainable manufacturing
- Low-toxicity solvents
- Earth-abundant materials
- Device integration
- Lifecycle analysis
- Scalable processing
Thomas D. Anthopoulos is a Professor of Emerging Electronics at the University of Manchester in the UK. Following the award of his BEng and PhD degrees, he spent two years at the University of St. Andrews (UK), where he worked on organic semiconductors for application in light-emitting diodes before joining Philips Research Laboratories in The Netherlands to focus on printable microelectronics. From 2006 to 2017, he held faculty positions at Imperial College London (UK), first as an EPSRC Advanced Fellow and later as a Reader and full Professor of Experimental Physics. From 2017 to 2023, he was a Professor of Material Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.
Mariano Campoy Quiles´s research is devoted to the understanding and development of solution processed semiconductors for energy and optoelectronic applications. He and his team have built substantial research efforts in two application areas, solar photovoltaic (light to electric) and thermoelectric (heat to electric) energy conversion based on organic and hybrid materials. He studied physics at the Univesity of Santiago de Compostela, obtained his PhD in experimental physics from Imperial College London, and since 2008 he leads his team at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona.