Research report 2008 - Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research

Organic Semiconductors for Electronic Devices

Authors
Baumgarten, Martin; Li, Chen; Feng, Xinliang; Müllen, Klaus
Departments

Synthetische Chemie (Prof. Dr. Klaus Müllen)
MPI für Polymerforschung, Mainz

Summary
Organic semiconductors allow the preparation of low-cost, flexible and large-area processable devices such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), field-effect transistors (FETs), photovoltaic cells (PVs), and sensor materials. Thereby a lot of basic science is involved, since besides of technical optimizations there is also a strong need for new synthetic building blocks. Thus actual research focuses on the development of tailored functional organic materials and their processing as films of suitable morphology for the individual applications.

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