Saturday Morning Science May 2025
“Beyond Silicon Electronics”
Suchi Guha
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Missouri
Abstract
The advent of plastic electronics utilizing organic semiconductors has revolutionized technology since the 1990s. Wearable, flexible, lightweight displays, and solar cells based on organic semiconductors have now become a reality. Conjugated polymers and organic molecules continue to attract widespread attention because of their great promise for low-cost, large-area optoelectronic and photonic device applications. In this presentation, I will discuss our recent efforts in the development of organic ferroelectric transistors, which hold great promise in brain-like computing.
Biography
Suchi Guha is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She earned her doctorate degree in physics from Arizona State University. Her current research interests include charge transport mechanisms in organic semiconductors, development of organic field-effect transistors and photodetectors, peptide electronics, and photophysics of organic semiconductors and perovskite materials using linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy. She has co-authored over 140 publications and currently serves as an associate editor of the journal – ACS Applied Electronic Materials.