Lecture: Quantum Dynamics of Singlet Fission in Oligoacene Dimers 

Lecturer: Prof. Yuan-Chung Cheng, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University 

Time: 9:00 am, Sep 30, 2015 

Location: Meeting Room 415-2 of Information Building 

Introduction of Lecturer 

EDUCATION:   

？Ph.D. in Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2006. 

？M.S. in Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1997. 

？B.S. in Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1995. 

CAREER:   

？NTU Department of Chemistry, Taipei, Taiwan. (July 2009 - present), Assistant Professor 

？U.C. Berkeley Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, CA. (March 2006 - June 2009), Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Graham R. Fleming. 

？MIT Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, MA. (September 2000 - February 2006), Graduate Research Associate with Professor Robert J. Silbey. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS: 

？Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and quantum dynamics of condensed-phase molecular systems 

？Dynamics of photosynthetic light harvesting 

？Photon-induced chemical dynamics 

？Theories for ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy 

？Theoretical multiscale modeling of organic optoelectronic nano-materials 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

？H.-B. Chen, N. Lambert, Y.C. Cheng, Y.-N. Chen, F. Nori, “Using non-Markovian measures to evaluate quantum master equations for photosynthesis”, Sci. Rep., 5, 12753 (2015). 

？C.-W. Tung, Y.-Y. Hsu, Y.-P. Shen, Y. Zheng, T.-S. Chan, H.-S. Sheu, Y.C. Cheng, H.-M. Chen, “Reversible adapting layer produces robust single-crystal electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution”, Nat. Comm., 6, 8106 (2015). 

？Y. Chang and Y.C. Cheng, “On the Accuracy of Coherent Modified Redfield Theory in Simulating Excitation Energy Transfer Dynamics”, J. Chem. Phys., 142, 034109 (2015). 

？Y.-H. Hwang-Fu, W. Chen, Y.C. Cheng, “A Coherent Modified Redfield Theory for Excitation Energy Transfer in Molecular Aggregates”, Chem. Phys., 447, 46 (2015). 

？S.-C. Luo, Y. Khin, S.-J. Huang, Y. Yang, T.-Y. Hou, Y.C. Cheng, H. M. Chen, Y.-Y. Chin, C.-T. Chen, H.-J. Lin, J. K.-H. Tang, J. C. C. Chan, “Probing the spatial organization of Bacteriochlorophyll c by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance”, Biochemistry, 53, 5515 (2014). 

？Y.-H. Ho, M.-C. Chang, K.-H. Yu, Y.-H. Liu, Y. Wang, Y.C. Cheng, J.-T. Chen, “CO2 fixation by dicopper(II) complexes in hypodentate framework of N₈O₂”, Dalton Trans., 43, 6287 (2014). 

？Q. Ai, Y.-J. Fan, B.-Y. Jin, Y.C. Cheng, “An efficient quantum jump method for coherent energy transfer dynamics in photosynthetic systems under the influence of laser fields”, New J. Phys., 16, 053033 (2014). 

？H.-T. Chang, P.-P. Zhang, Y.C. Cheng, “Criteria for the accuracy of small polaron quantum master equation in simulating excitation energy transfer dynamics”, J. Chem. Phys., 139, 224112 (2013). 

？Q. Ai, T.-C. Yen, B.-Y. Jin, Y.C. Cheng, “Clustered geometries exploiting quantum coherence effects for efficient energy transfer in light harvesting”, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 4, 2577 (2013). 

？C.-K. Lin, Y.-F. Wang, Y.C. Cheng, J.-S. Yang, “Multisite constrained model of trans-4-(N,NDimethylamino)- 4′-nitrostilbene for structural elucidation of radiative and nonradiative excited states”, J. Phys. Chem. A, 117, 3158 (2013). 

Cheng's homepage: http://quantum.ch.ntu.edu.tw/ycclab/