Semiconducting and Metallic Polymers.

Professor Heeger and his colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have done pioneering research in the area of semiconducting and metallic polymers. His current interests are focused on light emission from semiconducting polymers, including photoluminescence, light-emitting diodes, light-emitting electrochemical cells, and lasers. The MRL seed project (with Prof. S. DenBaars as co-PI) involves the development of hybrid structures of LEDs and lasers; in these hybrid structures the InGaN LED is used either to pump the photoluminescence from conjugated polymers for generation of white light (and high brightness LEDs of all colors) or to pump polymer lasers and thereby create a class of electrically pumped diode lasers with colors that span the visible spectrum.

Appointments, Honors, and Awards

1962-64 Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
1963-65 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow
1964-67 Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
1967-82 Professor, University of Pennsylvania
1968 Fellow, American Physical Society
1968-69 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
1968-69 Visiting Professor of Physics, University of Geneva
1973 Morris Loeb Visiting Lecturer in Physics, Harvard
1977 HYINational Academy Exchange Scholar - USSR
1978 Yamada Science Foundation Exchange Scholar - Japan
1978-81 Director, Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania
1981-82 Acting Vice-Provost for Research, University of Pennsylvania
1982 Professor of Physics, UCSB
1982 Director, Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, UCSB
1983 Oliver E. Buckley Prize for Condensed Matter Physics
1985 Professor of Materials (in Engineering), UCSB
1988 Adjunct Professor of Physics, The University of Utah
1989 John Scott Award and Medal for 1989
1990 Founder and President, UNIAX Corporation, Santa Barbara
1990-94 President, UNIAX Corporation
1992 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Mons (Belgium)
1994 Chief Scientist, Chairman of the Board, UNIAX Corporation
1994 Charles A. Stiefvater Lectureship Award, University of Nebraska
1995 Balzan Prize, "Science of New Materials", Bern, Switzerland
1996 Doctor of Technology (H.C.) University of Linkoping, Sweden
1998 Doctor of Science (H.C.) Abo Akademie University, Turku (Finland)