This symposium invites contributions on emerging photon multiplication and photon conversion processes and their applications in next-generation optoelectronic and energy-harvesting technologies. Advanced photophysical mechanisms such as singlet fission, quantum cutting, and upconversion are attracting increasing attention as promising strategies to enhance light-matter interactions and potentially surpass conventional efficiency limits in optoelectronic devices. Recent progress has been achieved across a variety of material platforms, including organic semiconductors, metal-halide perovskites, nanocrystals, rare-earth-based systems, and hybrid materials. This symposium aims to bring together researchers investigating the fundamental photophysics, spectroscopy, and materials engineering underlying these processes, as well as their integration into functional devices. Contributions addressing the implementation of photon multiplication strategies in applications such as photovoltaics, photodetectors, light-emitting devices, and other emerging applications are particularly encouraged. By connecting currently fragmented communities working on related photon conversion mechanisms across different materials and applications, this symposium seeks to stimulate interdisciplinary discussions and accelerate the development of innovative photon management strategies for future technologies.
- Photon multiplication and photon conversion in emerging semiconductors (organic materials, metal-halide perovskites
- Hybrid and nanoscale systems enabling enhanced photon conversion processes
- Materials design and engineering strategies for efficient photon multiplication
- Interfaces and energy transfer mechanisms in photon conversion systems
- Fundamental photophysics of photon multiplication processes (singlet fission, quantum cutting, upconversion, exciton
- Spectroscopic and theoretical investigations of excited-state dynamics, energy transfer mechanisms, and photon statistics
- Integration of photon multiplication approaches in optoelectronic devices
- Applications in photovoltaics, photodetectors, light-emitting devices, and emerging quantum and photonic technologies
Zhuoying Chen is a CNRS researcher (Chargé de recherche) working in the Laboratoire de Physique et d’Etude des Matériaux (LPEM, CNRS-UMR 8213) at ESPCI Paris, a unit of Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) University in France. She received her Ph.D at Columbia University in the city of New York. After being a postdoc researcher in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, she joined CNRS in 2010. Her main research field is on optoelectronic devices (e.g. solar cells and photodetectors) based on colloidal and organic–inorganic hybrid nanomaterials synthesized from bottom-up approaches.
Antoine Kahn is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1978. His current research interests include the structural, electronic and chemical properties of surfaces and interfaces of intrinsic and doped organic and hybrid semiconductor films. Recent work includes (i) the physics and applications of n- and p-type molecular dopants in organic thin films, (ii) organic/organic heterojunctions, (iii) transition metal oxides in organic electronics, and (iv) organo-metal perovskites. Kahn has co-authored over 380 refereed regular and review articles. He was the recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984-85), of the Joseph Meyerhoff Visiting Professorship (2002) and of the Weston Visiting Professorship (2009-12), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He is a Fellow of the AVS (1999) and APS (2002). He was listed among the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”, Thomson Reuters 2014.