Prof. Karl Leo, chair of optoelectronics
Prof. Karl Leo studied physics in Freiburg I. Br. and Stuttgart and was postdoc at AT & T Bell Laboratories and the RWTH Aachen. In 1993, he became professor of optoelectronics at the TU Dresden. He is the head of the Institute of Applied Physics and director of the interdisciplinary center "Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (DC IAPP)", which bundles the research to organic semiconductors at the TU Dresden.
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Prof. Karl Leo is an internationally recognized researcher in condensed matter physics. Among his achievements are the first observations of coherent electronic dynamics in solids (quantum beats and Bloch oscillations in semiconductor superlattices) and pioneering work on organic semiconductors, including the successful introduction of controlling doping in organic components; electronic components with world record efficiency (OLED, organic solar cells) and maximum frequency (organic transistors), and the first realisation of organic inversion transistors. Many of these technologies were successfully transferred to spin-off companies like Novaled and Heliatek. His main current research interests are novel organic electronic devices (Organic Devices and Structures group) and organic sensors (Organic Sensors group).
Prof. Leo has been rewarded with the Leibniz Award 2002 of the DFG, the German Future Award 2011 of the German President and the European Inventors Award 2021 of the European Patent Office.
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