Laura Dickson

PhD Candidate

Laura spends her days tinkering with polymers, trying to make semiconducting films for transistor devices that actually work (fingers crossed!). Outside of the lab, she's either walking her dog and cat (why not bring a whole zoo?), scaling big walls, or trekking up the pink lake hill on her bike.

Peer Review

I am currently available for peer-review requests. Requests can be sent to ldick015@uottawa.ca

Areas of Expertise and Interest

  • Organic Thin Film Transistors

  • GIWAXS

  • Raman Spectroscopy

  • Solution Processing

  • Polymer Semiconductors

  • Poly Ionic Liquid Dielectrics

  • Air Stable n-type Organic Semiconductors

I Have Previously Reviewed For

  • Wiley

  • ACS

  • Elsevier

Laura’s LRG Publications

194. Dipalo, V.; Dickson, L. E.; Cruz, M.; Cho, H.; Lessard, B. H.* Synthesis of Semibatch Copoly(Ionic Liquid) Solid-State Electrolytes for Organic Thin-Film Transistors. doi:10.1021/acsapm.5c02870

193. Dickson, L. E.; Dipalo, V.; Plint, T. P.; Mohanan, K. U.; Manion, J. G.; Kim, C-H.; Lessard, B. H.* Tuning the Air Stability of N-Type Semiconductors via Poly(2-vinylpyridine): the Importance of Humidity and Molecular Weight. doi:10.1002/smsc.202500452

185. Park, I. E.; Kim, S. Y.; Dickson, L.E.; Tse, H.; Prasad, V.; Schmaltz, B.; Lessard, B. H.; Doumon, N. Y.; Welch, G. C.* New p-Azaquinodimethane Core Based Narrow-gap Non-Ring Fused Organic Acceptor. doi:10.1039/D5QM00355E

176. Dickson, L.; Brixi, S.; Radford, C. L.; Manion, J.; Kelly, T. L.; Lessard, B. H.* Self-assembly of poly(ionic liquid) block copolymer based dielectrics on semiconductor formation and performance. doi:10.1039/D4TC03157A

152. Dickson, L. E.; Cranston, R. R.; Xu, Hao.; Swaraj, S.; Seferos, D. S.; Lessard, B. H. Blade Coating Poly(3-hexylthiophene): The Importance of Molecular Weight on Thin-Films Microstructures doi:10.1021/acsami.3c12335