Organic Electronics

Description

This textbook provides a basic understanding of the principles of the field of organic electronics through to their applications in organic devices. Useful for the student and practitioner, it is both a teaching text and a resource that is a jumping-off point for learning, working and innovating in this rapidly growing field.

• Divided into two sections: fundamental principles of the field, and organic electronic devices
• Moves the reader rapidly through basic understanding, theoretical underpinning, to practical examples
• End-of-chapter exercises to embed understanding and solidify knowledge
• Key chapters on optical properties, organic light emitters and detectors advances in the field and the source materials
• Comprehensive coverage of this broad field makes this textbook a self-contained, convenient reference
• Useful for both the student and the practitioner in the field of organic electronics

About the Author(s)

Stephen R. Forrest, Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Physics, and Materials Science & Engineering, University of Michigan

Stephen R. Forrest is Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Southern California. Prof. Forrest has received a number of awards for his work, including the Thomas Alva Edison Award for innovations in organic LEDs, the MRS Medal, the IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, the Jan Rajchman Prize from the Society for Information Display, the IEEE Daniel Nobel Award, and the IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal. He holds an honorary doctorate at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors. He is co-founder of Sensors Unlimited, NanoFlex Power Corp., Universal Display Corp. and Apogee Photonics, Inc.

Table of Contents

1:Introduction to organic electronics
2:Bulk and thin film structures
3:Optical Properties
4:Charge transport
5:Materials purity, growth and patterning
6:Organic light emitters
7:Organic Light Detectors
8:Organic thin film transistors
9:Expect the Unexpected: More Possibilities for Organic Electronics
App A:Glossary of frequently used and common abbreviations
App B:Identification of chemical names
App C:Measuring ionization potentials and electron affinities

Reviews

"Within its 1,000 pages, this book has everything: It is a comprehensive and accessible exposition of its topic, organic electronics; it is beautifully illustrated; it contains copious references to the literature and includes instructive exercises. The book has the advantage of having been written by a highly accomplished researcher who has also road-tested teaching this material on many occasions ... The author is to be thanked and congratulated for undertaking this mammoth project, which has provided what one anticipates will be the definitive organic electronics textbook for many years to come." - K. Alan Shore, Optics & Phototonics News

"The definitive organic electronics textbook for many years to come ... this book has everything: It is a comprehensive and accessible exposition of its topic, organic electronics; it is beautifully illustrated; it contains copious references to the literature and includes instructive exercises. The book has the advantage of having been written by a highly accomplished researcher who has also road-tested teaching this material on many occasions." - K. Alan Shore, Optics & Photonics News, March 2021