Hany Aziz

Hany Aziz is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a cross-appointment to the Department of Chemical Engineering. He served as the Associate Director of Waterloo’s Nanotechnology Engineering program from 2015-2019. He is also Associate Director of the Giga-to-Nanoelectronics Centre. He previously held the appointment of NSERC- DALSA Research Chair in organic electronics.

Professor Aziz’s group conducts research in the interdisciplinary area of organic electronics and optoelectronics including both electroluminescent (such as Organic Light-Emitting Devices or OLEDs and quantum dot LEDs ) and light harvesting (such as organic photovoltaics and optical sensing) materials and devices. The research spans a wide range of areas ranging from studying fundamental phenomena in organic semiconductors (such as carrier injection and transport, exciton dynamics, carrier-exciton interactions) to developing novel devices and fabrication technologies for next generation electronics (such as flexible flat panel displays and printable electronics).

Professor Aziz’s research contributions are widely cited in the organic electronics community, and have resulted in over 150 peer-reviewed publications to date. He has several inventions including the industry’s benchmark long-life and thermally-stable OLED and the contrast enhancing Black Cathode™ Technology. He holds 51 U.S. patents.

• Organic electronics
• Optoelectronic materials and devices
• Charge and energy transfer in amorphous semiconductors
• Materials for flexible and printable electronics
• Nanotechnology
• Additive manufacturing
• Renewable energy
• Nano-electronics
• Organic light emitting devices (OLEDs)
• Organic photovoltaics
• Optical sensing/imaging

• 1999, Doctorate, Materials Science & Engineering, McMaster University
• 1996, Master of Science, Materials Science & Engineering, McMaster University
• 1989, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mechanical Engineering, The American University in Cairo

• T. Davidson-Hall and H. Aziz, Perspective: Toward highly stable electroluminescent quantum dot light-emitting devices in the visible range, Applied Physics Letters, 116(1), 2020, 0105021 - 0105026
• T. Davidson-Hall and H. Aziz, The Role of Excitons Within the Hole Transporting Layer in Quantum Dot Light Emitting Device Degradation, Nanoscale, 11, 2019, 8310 - 8318
• M. Sadeghian-Lemraski, T. Davidson-Hall, B. Lee, Z. Leonenko and H. Aziz, Enhanced photo-stability of inverted organic solar cells via using polyethylenimine in the electron extraction layers, Organic Electronics, 73, 2019, 26 - 35
• H. Yu and H. Aziz, Direct Observation of Exciton-induced Molecular Aggregation in Organic Small Molecule Electroluminescent Materials, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, 2019, 16424 - 16429
• Y.J. Cho and H. Aziz, The Root Causes of the Limited Electroluminescence Stability of Organic Light-emitting Devices Made by Solution-coating, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10, 2018, 18113 - 18122