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Nir Tessler (; born 1962) is the Barbara and Norman Seiden
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in the Faculty of
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and
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and head of the
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and
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centers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.


Early life and education

Nir Tessler was born in
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, Israel. He studied at
Hebrew Reali School The Hebrew Reali School of Haifa (), located in Haifa, Israel, is one of the country's oldest private schools.Israeli Air Force The Israeli Air Force (IAF; , commonly known as , ''Kheil HaAvir'', "Air Corps") operates as the aerial and space warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It was founded on May 28, 1948, shortly after the Israeli Declaration of Indep ...
from 1980 to 1985. Tessler received his B.Sc in electrical engineering in 1989 (Summa Cum Laude) and
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in electrical engineering (1992), both from the Technion. His
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degree was received in 1995 from the Technion. Tessler authored the thesis ''Dynamic Properties of Inverted QW Laser Structure'', under the supervision of Gadi Eisenstein.


Career

Tessler was a research associate and later an
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advanced fellow at the
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,
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, UK from 1995 to 1999. He then joined the faculty of electrical engineering at the Technion as a senior lecturer. Tessler became an associate professor in 2003, and a full professor in 2008. From 2010, Tessler is head of the Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics centers at the Technion. As of April 2022, Tessler has supervised 27 graduate students, and authored over 200 scientific publications.


Research

Tessler's research work focuses on new materials and the relation of their
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and
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properties with device performance; Device chemical-physics and device structural designs. This includes light-matter interaction (including
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action and micro-cavities), transport of electrons, holes, and ions,
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pairs (excitons), processing of devices (
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s, photo-images, detectors and
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s). In 1996 Tessler was the first to introduce a “plastic laser” based on
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(
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). Two years later he initiated the construction of the first smart-pixel, which proved that thin flexible screens are feasible. In 2002 he showed that organic
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(
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s) can be made to emit
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at a
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(“color”) that is relevant to fiber-based communication (i.e., at 1.3
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). In 2006, he submitted a patent for a new transistor structure which had a vertical orientation where the transistor functions of
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, source, channel, and drain are stacked one on top of the other.


Honors and awards

* 1995 The Rothschild Post Doctoral Fellowship * 1999 Alon Fellowship * 2009 Top 1% in the field of Chemistry. - Essential Science Indicators from
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* 2020 Honorary fellow of the Chinese chemical society for “pioneering contributions in the field of conjugated polymer lasers, near infrared polymer LEDs,
organic semiconductor Organic semiconductors are solids whose building blocks are pi-bonded molecules or polymers made up by carbon and hydrogen atoms and – at times – heteroatoms such as nitrogen, sulfur and oxygen. They exist in the form of molecular crystals o ...
charge transport, and vertical structure organic field effect transistor devices” * 2020 Fellow of the
Royal society of chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society and professional association in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the ...


Selected articles

* N. Tessler and G. Eisenstein, On carrier injection and gain dynamics in quantum well lasers,
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics The ''IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering optical, electrical, and electronics engineering, and some applied aspects of lasers, physical optics, and quantum electronics. It is published by the IEEE ...
, 1993, 29, 1586–1595. * N. Tessler, G. J. Denton and R. H. Friend, Lasing from conjugated-polymer microcavities,
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, 1996, 382, 695–697. * G. J. Denton, N. Tessler, N. T. Harrison and R. H. Friend, Factors influencing stimulated emission from poly(p-phenylenevinylene),
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, 1997, 78, 733–736. * H. Sirringhaus, N. Tessler and R. H. Friend, Integrated optoelectronic devices based on conjugated polymers,
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, 1998, 280, 1741–1744. * N. Tessler, N. T. Harrison and R. H. Friend, High peak brightness polymer light-emitting diodes,
Advanced Materials ''Advanced Materials'' is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering materials science. It includes communications, reviews, and feature articles on topics in chemistry, physics, nanotechnology, ceramics, metallurgy, and biomaterials. Accor ...
, 1998, 10, 64-+. * V. Cleave, G. Yahioglu, P. Le Barny, R. H. Friend and N. Tessler, Harvesting singlet and triplet energy in polymer LEDs, Advanced Materials, 1999, 11, 285–288. * N. Tessler, Lasers based on semiconducting organic materials, Advanced Materials, 1999, 11, 363–370. * Y. Roichman and N. Tessler, Generalized Einstein relation for disordered semiconductors - Implications for device performance,
Applied Physics Letters ''Applied Physics Letters'' is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by the American Institute of Physics. Its focus is rapid publication and dissemination of new experimental and theoretical papers regarding applications of ...
, 2002, 80, 1948–1950. * N. Tessler, V. Medvedev, M. Kazes, S. H. Kan and U. Banin, Efficient near-infrared polymer nanocrystal light-emitting diodes, Science, 2002, 295, 1506–1508. * M. Soreni-Harari, N. Yaacobi-Gross, D. Steiner, A. Aharoni, U. Banin, O. Millo and N. Tessler, Tuning energetic levels in nanocrystal quantum dots through surface manipulations,
Nano Letters ''Nano Letters'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society. It was established in January 2001. The editor-in-chief is Teri W. Odom (Northwestern University). The journal covers all aspects of nanosci ...
, 2008, 8, 678–684. * N. Tessler, Y. Preezant, N. Rappaport and Y. Roichman, Charge Transport in Disordered Organic Materials and Its Relevance to Thin-Film Devices: A Tutorial Review,
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, 2009, 21, 2741–2761. * O. Solomeshch et al., "Ground-State Interaction and Electrical Doping of Fluorinated C-60 in Conjugated Polymers," Advanced Materials, vol. 21, no. 44, 0935–9648, pp. 4456-+, 2009 * H. Shekhar, O. Solomeshch, D. Liraz and N. Tessler, Low dark leakage current in organic planar heterojunction photodiodes, Applied Physics Letters, 2017, 111. * H. Shekhar, A. Fenigstein, T. Leitner, B. Lavi, D. Veinger, and N. Tessler, "Hybrid image sensor of small molecule organic photodiode on CMOS – Integration and characterization," Sci Rep, vol. 10, no. 1, p. 7594, 2020.


External links


Nir Tessler's lab
Organic Materials and Devices Lab, Technion
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References

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