Spin & Excitonic Engineering Group
Prof. Marc Baldo

Research

Sensors

Chemical and biological sensors are perhaps the next big opportunity for soft semiconductor materials. The advantage of soft semiconductors in this application is twofold: firstly, soft materials can follow the biological model of shape recognition using conformational signal transduction; secondly, soft semiconductors are an ideal interface between conventional electronic materials and the environment.

We are investigating signal transduction devices in both chemical sensors and proteomic sensors.