Dr. Lay-Lay Chua

Professor National University of

Biography

​Lay-Lay Chua received her B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from National University of Singapore. She completed her Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Cambridge in 2007.   She was awarded Inaugural Dual-University Assistant Professorship between NUS and Cambridge, and began her independent academic career at National University of Singapore in 2008. She is now Associate Professor.  She serves as associate editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Prior to her academic career, she worked in Semiconductor industry in Singapore (1996-2000); She is a member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, New Jersey, USA (2001-2002); Research Associate at University of Cambridge and also Research Fellow at National University of Singapore (2003-2008).  Her research interests focus on materials and processing development to advance the science and technology of polymer organic semiconductors including organic polymer−graphene hybrids for advanced applications in organic electronics, polymer thermal electric generators and batteries, and also nonlinear optics.

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Ambient processable shallow (≤4.0 eV) and deep (≥5.8 eV) charge injection and extraction layers for high performance devices
04:45 PM

Electrodes with sufficiently high, or low, work functions to match the appropriate band edge of the semiconductor are required in all high performance devices for efficient injection (and/or extraction) of holes, or electrons, respectively. Ambient processability will confer an added design and manufacturing advantage. In this talk, I will report our materials development to make ambient processable shallow (≤4.0 eV) and deep (≥5.8 eV) charge injection and extraction layers. For ultra-high work function interlayer, I will discuss self-compensated doped polymers which are generated by a separate charge-carrier doping of conjugated polyelectrolytes and compensation by their covalently bonded counter-ion, which enables the use of strong dopants to access extreme workfunction. This strategy also stabilize film from de-doping and suppress dopant migration. I will further discuss the role of these counter-ion and also the spectator cations in their solution-processability, bulk and interface morphologies in workfunction manipulation. For ultra-low work function interlayer, I will discuss using di- and higher-valent anions with negative gas-phase electron detachment energies, such as oxalate, sulfite, carbonate, sulfate and phosphate. Their electron donor level can remain sufficiently shallow in disordered matrices, particularly upon loss of the stabilizing hydration water, to provide spontaneous doping of the semiconductor, especially in the presence of holes injected by the opposite contact.

Dr. Lay-Lay Chua

Professor National University of

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