Organic Photonics and Electronics: Faraday Discussions

This volume encompasses a range of topical subjects, centred around the theme of organic electronics and photonics.

Organic semiconductors (OSCs) are revolutionising the electronics industry. OSCs offer several key characteristics that can be used to provide major advantages over silicon based devices. Polymer based OSCs can be used to provide flexible devices and this, coupled with the fact that OSCs function effectively as thin films, means that the devices are lightweight, highly portable, and exceptionally marketable.

The most topical applications to date include organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays and lighting, organic photovoltaics (OPVs) and organic field effect transistors (OFETs). OLEDs have already reached the market and our understanding of structure-property relationships and photophysics in this field are already well established. In the case of OPVs and OFETs, the major challenge is to match the performance of amorphous silicon in analogous devices. Applications for these technologies are varied and include sensing, medical diagnostics, artificial assemblies, computing and information and communication technologies.

This volume provides a multidisciplinary platform for the debate of current and future work in organic electronics.
The topics covered in this volume include:

• Organic photovoltaics and energy
• Organic laser
• Bioelectronics and sensors
• Molecular electronics