Organic Electronics

Emerging Concepts and Technologies

Fabio Cicoira, Clara Santato, Fabio Cicoira, Clara Santato

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9783527411313
• eBook ISBN: 9783527650989
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications
• Index: Technology & Engineering

An overview of the tremendous potential of organic electronics, concentrating on those emerging topics and technologies that will form the focus of research over the next five to ten years. The young and energetic team of editors with an excellent research track record has brought together internationally renowned authors to review up-and-coming topics, some for the first time, such as organic spintronics, iontronics, light emitting transistors, organic sensors and advanced structural analysis. As a result, this book serves the needs of experienced researchers in organic electronics, graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, as well as scientists active in closely related fields, including organic chemical synthesis, thin film growth and biomaterials.

Cover Figure: With kind permission of Matitaccia.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Related Titles
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• List of Contributors
• Chapter 1: Nanoparticles Based on π-Conjugated Polymers and Oligomers for Optoelectronic, Imaging, and Sensing Applications: The Illustrative Example of Fluorene-Based Polymers and Oligomers
• Chapter 2: Conducting Polymers to Control and Monitor Cells
• Chapter 3: Medical Applications of Organic Bioelectronics
• Chapter 4: A Hybrid Ionic–Electronic Conductor: Melanin, the First Organic Amorphous Semiconductor?
• Chapter 5: Eumelanin: An Old Natural Pigment and a New Material for Organic Electronics – Chemical, Physical, and Structural Properties in Relation to Potential Applications
• Chapter 6: New Materials for Transparent Electrodes
• Chapter 7: Ionic Carriers in Polymer Light-Emitting and Photovoltaic Devices
• Chapter 8: Recent Trends in Light-Emitting Organic Field-Effect Transistors
• Chapter 9: Toward Electrolyte-Gated Organic Light-Emitting Transistors: Advances and Challenges
• Chapter 10: Photophysical and Photoconductive Properties of Novel Organic Semiconductors
• Chapter 11: Engineering Active Materials for Polymer-Based Organic Photovoltaics
• Chapter 12: Single-Crystal Organic Field-Effect Transistors
• Chapter 13: Large-Area Organic Electronics: Inkjet Printing and Spray Coating Techniques
• Chapter 14: Electronic Traps in Organic Semiconductors
• Chapter 15: Perspectives on Organic Spintronics
• Chapter 16: Organic-Based Thin-Film Devices Produced Using the Neutral Cluster Beam Deposition Method
• Index