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Dr. Franky So

Research and career
Franky So earned his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. He was the Manager for the OLED Research group at the Motorola Corporate Research Laboratories before transitioning to become the Head of OLED Research at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. In 2005, he joined the University of Florida and became the Rolf E. Hummel Professor of Electronic Materials in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Since 2015, he has been the Walter and Ida Freeman Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University.

He has received many awards in the past. While at Motorola, he was named the Distinguished Innovator and Master Innovator. He was the recipient of the Department of Energy Solid State Lighting Program Significant Achievement Awards. He has founded and co-founded 5 startups. In 2023, he was named the Entrepreneur of the Year at the North Carolina State University. Dr. So holds 120 U.S. patents. He has published more than 230 papers with an H-Index of 82, edited 5 books, and written 4 book chapters. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Materials Science and Engineering Reports and serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, IEEE Journal of Display Technology, SPIE Journal of Photonic Technology, and Journal of SID. So is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Photonics Society, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, MRS, IEEE, SID, OSA, and SPIE.

In 2023, Franky So was named the Entrepreneur of the Year by North Carolina State University.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franky_So

https://www.lightwavelogic.com/about-us/leadership/

So’s current research focus is on electronics properties and photophysics of organic semiconductors and quantum dots used for OLEDs, solar cells, photodetectors, sensors and transistors. His recent works include: use of corrugated structures to fabricate OLEDs and perovskite solar cells, charge transport, injection and charge transfer excitons in organic semiconductors, dielectric properties of polymer-fullerene blends for photovoltaics, vertical permeable metal base transistors, vertical field effect transistors, PbS quantum dots photodetectors and phototransistors, and ferroelectric transistors.

https://www.mse.ncsu.edu/people/fso/

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