The 12th International Conference on Optical Probes of Organic and Hybrid Semiconductors (OP2017) will be held June 19–23, 2017, in Québec City, Canada. The co-chairs are Carlos Silva of Université de Montréal, Canada; and Stéphane Kéna-Cohen of École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada.

The scope of the conference is a variety of excited state phenomena in technologically important materials and biosystems, including size-dependent and time-dependent electronic interactions, excited state dynamics, strong light–matter interactions, quantum confinement, photocarrier transport, and novel spectroscopic techniques. The objective is to place emphasis on the generality of the phenomena rather than specifics of the systems and optical measurements.

Topics include

• ▪ Organic and polymeric materials (photophysics, chemistry, and dynamics)

• ▪ Energy transport and exciton annihilation processes

• ▪ Organic/polymeric electronic devices (OLEDS, OPV)

• ▪ Photophysics and applications of hybrid organometal perovskite materials

• ▪ Thermally activated delayed fluorescence in OLEDs

• ▪ Organometallic complexes (photophysics and applications)

• ▪ Semiconductor nanocrystals and metal nanoparticles (hybrid devices and novel physical phenomena)

• ▪ Organic and inorganic nanostructured photovoltaic phenomena (physics, chemistry, and devices)

• ▪ Optical properties of carbon allotropes

• ▪ Photophysics of 2D atomic-layered materials

• ▪ Molecular and supramolecular ordered assembly at nanoscales

• ▪ Novel optical probes for condensed-matter materials research

• ▪ Singlet fission

• ▪ Spin dynamics in organic systems

• ▪ Photophysics of bioorganic materials and luminescent optical probes

Confirmed plenary speakers are Vahid Sadoghdar of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; Chihaya Adachi of Kyushu University, Japan; and Greg Scholes of Princeton University, USA.

The abstract submission deadline is February 29. The early bird and presenting author registration deadline is April 18. More information can be accessed from the conference website at http://op2017.org or by email at [email protected].