| People
- Faculty
- Professor:
Alan Heeger |
| Field(s): |
Polymer
Chemistry |
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| Email: |
ajhe@physics.ucsb.edu |
| Phone: |
(805)
893-3184 |
Fax:
(805)
893-4755 |
| Office: |
Broida 1302 |
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Selected
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| Bio: |
Dr. Heeger obtained his B.S. with High Distinction from
the University of Nebraska in 1957 and his Ph.D. from
the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. Dr. Heeger
has won numerous awards including 1995 Balzan Prize, "Science
of New Materials", Bern, Switzerland, 1998 Doctor
of Faculty of Science (H.C.) Abo Akademi University, Finland,
2000 Fellow, Institute of Physics, UK and the 2000
Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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Current
Research
Professor
Heeger and his colleagues at the University of California, Santa
Barbara have done pioneering research in the area of semiconducting
and metallic polymers. This class of novel materials has the
electrical and optical properties of semiconductors and metals
in combination with the processing advantages and mechanical
properties of polymers. His current research interests lie in
the area of transport in semiconducting polymers and light emission
from semiconducting polymers (both photoluminescence and electroluminescence).
His research group focuses on issues related to the fundamental
electronic structure of this novel class of materials and carries
out studies of light emitting diodes (LEDs), light-emitting
electrochemical cells (LECs), and lasers, all fabricated from
semiconducting (conjugated) polymers. Experimental facilities
provide the capability for a broad range of spectroscopic studies
(including ultrafast, fs, time resolved spectroscopy), quantitative
measurement of photoluminescence and electroluminescence quantum
efficiencies, optical gain/loss of conjugated polymer/oligomer
laser materials, and photoconductivity (steady state and time
resolved with sub-ns time resolution).
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| Selected
Research Publications |
| Biosensors Based on Binding-Modulated Donor-Acceptor Distances, C. Fan, K.W. Plaxco, A.J. Heeger, Science Direct, vol. 23, no. 4, 186-192 (2005). |
| The Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Gate: A Time Resolved-Study, A. Xu, S. Wang, D. Korystov, A. Mikhailovsky, G.C. Bazan, D. Moses, A.J. Heeger, PNAS 102, (N3) 530-535 (2005). |
| Water/Methanol-Soluble Conjugated Copolymer as an Electron-Transport Layer in Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes, W. Ma, P.K. Iyer, X. Gong, B. Liu, D. Moses, G.C. Bazan, A.J. Heeger, Adv. Mater. 17 (N3) 274-277 (2005). |
| Ultrafast Photogeneration of Charged Polarons on Conjugated Polymer Chains in Dilute Solution, P B. Miranda, D. Moses, A. J. Heeger, Physical Review B, 70 (8) 085212 (2004). |
| Time-Resolved Energy Transfer in DNA Sequence Detection Using Water-Soluble Conjugated Polymers: The Role of Electrostatic and Hydrophobic Interactions, Q.-H. Xu, B.S. Gaylord, S. Wang, G.C. Bazan, D. Moses, A.J. Heeger, PNAS 101, (N32) 11634-11639 (2004). |
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