Week 6

The title of chemistry seminar that was held on Oct. 14^th 2010 was “Active Fermi Level Switching: Light Mediated Molecular Effect.” The guest speaker was Jacob W. Ciszek who is an assistant professor at the chemistry department of the Loyola University. He published nineteen publications as a graduate student, focusing on molecular electronics. His current research focuses on how molecules absorbed on the surface can dynamically alter the Fermi level, the highest energy state of a metal where the electrons reside.

Dr. Jacob Ciszek, from Loyola University in Chicago Illinois came to give us a talk about active fermi level switching.

It was a very interesting presentation given by Dr. Ciszek he has some very powerful ideas about how to make things like led's in computer screens and solar panels more efficient. Of course that's not all he was trying to accomplish, instead they were just to examples of things that could be accomplished given proper use of his techniques. 

     This week’s speaker was Jacob Ciszek, who is a chemist that is currently working on molecular electronics, that is computing based on electrical switching of a single molecule.  Ciszek’s presentation was done in an understandable way and I found it to be very interesting.   He first told of some example of systems containing organic materials such as organic field effect transistor; light emitting diodes (OLEDs), and solar cells.