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| Organic Electronics Association | |
|---|---|
| Name | Organic Electronics Association |
| Type | Non-profit professional association |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Region served | International |
| Leader title | President |
| Leader name | Dr. Maria L. Ortega |
Organic Electronics Association The Organic Electronics Association is an international professional association dedicated to advancing research, development, and commercialization of organic electronic materials and devices. It serves as a nexus connecting researchers, companies, universities, and national laboratories engaged in organic semiconductors, organic photovoltaics, organic light-emitting diodes, and organic sensors. The association organizes conferences, publishes proceedings, and fosters partnerships among institutions, companies, and funding agencies.
The association was established in 2003 following workshops that convened researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, Stanford University, Max Planck Society, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Early activities grew from symposia that included participants from Bell Labs, Sony Corporation, DuPont de Nemours, Inc., Koninklijke Philips N.V., and Samsung Electronics. Founding board members included scientists affiliated with University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Oxford, University of Tokyo, and University of Würzburg. The association expanded during the 2010s alongside milestones such as the commercialization of OLED displays by Samsung Display and the scaling of organic photovoltaics in pilot plants run by Heliatek and Konarka Technologies. Its historical timeline features collaborations with funding bodies like the European Commission, the National Science Foundation, and the Japan Science and Technology Agency.
The association's mission emphasizes acceleration of innovation in organic electronics through networking among researchers at MIT, ETH Zürich, University of California, Berkeley, Seoul National University, and industry partners such as Universal Display Corporation and TFT-LCD manufacturers. Objectives include promoting standardized test methods endorsed by organizations like ISO and IEC, advocating for translational research supported by agencies including DARPA and Horizon 2020, and facilitating workforce development via partnerships with institutions such as Imperial College London and Tsinghua University. The association also aims to bridge academic discoveries at laboratories like Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with commercialization pathways through incubators associated with Y Combinator and Techstars.
Membership comprises individual researchers from Columbia University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Pennsylvania, corporate members from LG Chem, BASF, 3M Company, and institutional members including Fraunhofer Society and CEA-Leti. Governance is vested in an elected board chaired by a president with advisory committees that include representatives from IEEE and Royal Society. Annual elections follow bylaws modeled on those used by American Chemical Society and Materials Research Society, with standing committees for ethics, standards, and diversity drawing members from National Institute of Standards and Technology, AAAS, and Royal Academy of Engineering.
The association hosts an annual flagship conference alternating between venues such as Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, ExCeL London, Fukuoka International Congress Center, and Messe Berlin. Satellite meetings include workshops co-organized with SPIE, Optica (formerly OSA), and The Electrochemical Society, and focused schools in partnership with CERN training programs and summer schools at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Special sessions have featured keynote speakers from Nobel Prize laureates affiliated with University of Cambridge and invited industrial panels from Apple Inc., Google (Alphabet Inc.), and Intel Corporation.
The association curates peer-reviewed conference proceedings and white papers drawing authors from journals such as Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, Journal of Applied Physics, and Chemical Reviews. It sponsors special issues in collaboration with publishers including Wiley-VCH, Elsevier, and Springer Nature. Research themes emphasized include organic thin-film transistors pioneered in labs at University of Illinois, flexible displays commercialized by LG Display, organic photovoltaics advanced by Heliatek, and bioelectronic sensors developed at Imperial College London. The association also maintains an open-access preprint repository interoperable with arXiv and indexes contributions alongside databases managed by Scopus and Web of Science.
Strategic partnerships include joint technology roadmaps with SEMATECH, translational programs with Euresearch, and consortia involving Boeing for lightweight electronics and Siemens for sensor integration. Collaborative projects have been funded through public–private mechanisms with European Investment Bank, U.S. Department of Energy, and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Industrial liaison committees coordinate pilot fabs with partners like Toppan Printing and Universal Display Corporation and work on supply-chain initiatives with materials suppliers such as Merck KGaA and Covestro AG.
The association administers awards modeled on prestigious recognitions such as the MRS Medal and the Royal Society Rumford Medal, including the Early Career Innovation Award, the Industrial Impact Award, and the Lifetime Achievement in Organic Electronics Award. Recipients have included researchers from University of Cambridge, Stanford University, University of Tokyo, and executives from Universal Display Corporation and Samsung Display. Award ceremonies are frequently held in conjunction with the association's annual conference and have been patronized by institutions like Royal Society and National Academy of Engineering.
Category:Scientific societies Category:Electronics organizations