Liang-Sheng Liao

Dr. Liang-Sheng Liao is currently a professor at the Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials, Soochow University, executive director of the Institute of Organic Optoelectronics, Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute, and a national distinguished expert. He has been engaged in the research of OLED materials, devices, and equipment for nearly 30 years, and has experienced the technology development from laboratory research to industrialization of OLED. He was the principal investigator of the key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National 863 Program and the National Key R&D Program. He has published more than 550 papers (including Nature, Nat. Mater., Nat. Chem., Nat. Photonics, Nat. Electron., Nat. Commun., Nat. Rev. Mater.), with more than 25,000 SCI citations, h-index = 86, and has been continuously selected into the list of Elsevier China Highly Cited Researchers since 2014. He has been granted 167 invention patents (including 42 U.S. patents; with citations of more than 2,400 times). Participated in the formulation of 1 national standard and 2 association standards. He won the "Outstanding Inventor" award from Eastman Kodak Company, was employed as an expert of the National Science and Technology Key Special Expert Group, and is now the deputy editor of Applied Physics Letters.

Principles and Fabrication Technique of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are superior to LCDs in terms of performance. Therefore, OLEDs are now widely using as display panels and lighting sources in our daily lives with a hundred-billion-dollar market worldwide. This lecture will consist of four parts: 1) Introduction to OLEDs covering their history, current status, and future trend; 2) Characteristics of OLED materials including light-emitting materials, transporting materials, injecting materials; 3) Characteristics of OLED devices dealing with the basic layer structure, interfaces, defects, tandem OLEDs, light extraction; and 4) Fabrication processes of OLEDs focusing on thermal evaporation technique, solution-processable technology, and encapsulation.