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Oana Jurchescu is a Romanian physicist who is the Baker Family Physics Professor at Wake Forest University. Her research considers charge transport in organic and organic/inorganic hybrid semiconductors. In 2022, she was awarded a National Science Foundation Special Creativity Award for her work translating organic electronic materials into real-world devices.

Jurchescu was an undergraduate student at the West University of Timișoara in Romania. ^[1] She moved to the University of Groningen in the Netherlands for her doctoral research, where she studied organic semiconductors for optoelectronic devices. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. ^[1]

In 2009, Jurchescu joined the Department of Physics at Wake Forest University. Her work considers novel functional materials and their application in electronic devices. She has particularly explored organic and hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors and how they can realize large-area, flexible electronic devices. ^{[2] [3]}

Jurchescu worked with physicians to realize organic field-effect transistor- based radiation detectors for patients undergoing cancer treatment. These devices, based on 2,8-difluoro-5,11-bis(triethylsilylethynyl)anthradithiophene (diF-TES ADT), acted as in vivo dosimeters to monitor radiation levels on a patient's skin in real time. ^[4] As well as pursuing high charge carrier mobilities, Jurchescu is interested in the degradation pathways that can impede the performance and lifetime of organic electronic devices. ^{[5] [6]}

Jurcheschu was named Baker Family Professor of Physics in 2021. ^[7] In 2022, she was awarded an NSF Special Creativity Award to develop OSCAR, Organic Semiconductors by Computation on the Accelerated Refinement. ^{[8] [9]} OSCAR look to develop novel functional molecular materials to accelerate commercialization. ^[10]

• 2012 Wake Forest University Faculty Endowment Fund Fellowship ^[11]
• 2013 Wake Forest University Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching ^[12]
• 2013 National Science Foundation CAREER Award ^[13]
• 2013 Wake Forest University Innovation Award^{[ citation needed]}
• 2014 Journal of Materials Chemistry C Emerging Investigators Issue^{[ citation needed]}
• 2015 Wake Forest University Award for Excellence in Research ^[14]
• 2017 Kulynych Family Omicron Delta Kappa Award ^[15]
• 2018 URECA Award For Excellence in Mentorship in Research and Creative Work ^[16]
• 2020 Graduate School Student Association Faculty Excellence Award ^[17]

• Jurchescu, Oana D.; Baas, Jacob; Palstra, Thomas T. M. (2004-04-19). "Effect of impurities on the mobility of single crystal pentacene". Applied Physics Letters. 84 (16): 3061–3063. arXiv: cond-mat/0404130. Bibcode: 2004ApPhL..84.3061J. doi: 10.1063/1.1704874. ISSN  0003-6951. S2CID  118849296.
• D J Gundlach; J E Royer; S K Park; et al. (17 February 2008). "Contact-induced crystallinity for high-performance soluble acene-based transistors and circuits". Nature Materials. 7 (3): 216–221. doi: 10.1038/NMAT2122. ISSN  1476-1122. PMID  18278050. Wikidata  Q47910287.
• Emily G Bittle; James I Basham; Thomas N Jackson; Oana D Jurchescu; David J Gundlach (10 March 2016). "Mobility overestimation due to gated contacts in organic field-effect transistors". Nature Communications. 7: 10908. Bibcode: 2016NatCo...710908B. doi: 10.1038/NCOMMS10908. ISSN  2041-1723. PMC  4792947. PMID  26961271. Wikidata  Q36690168.
• Oana D Jurchescu; Auke Meetsma; Thomas T M Palstra (15 March 2006). "Low-temperature structure of rubrene single crystals grown by vapor transport". Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science. 62 (Pt 2): 330–334. doi: 10.1107/S0108768106003053. ISSN  0108-7681. PMID  16552167. Wikidata  Q82904721.