Semiconducting and metallic polymers
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Semiconducting and metallic polymers
(Oxford graduate texts)
Oxford University Press, 2010
- : hbk
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Conducting and semiconducting (conjugated) polymers have a unique set of properties, combining the electronic properties of metals and semiconductors with the processing advantages and mechanical properties of polymers. Now, thirty-five years after their discovery, metallic conducting polymers have been demonstrated in the laboratory to have electrical conductivities approaching that of copper, and mechanical strengths exceeding that of steel, a remarkable
achievement.
A wide variety of electrical and optical devices have been demonstrated using semiconducting polymers. Light-emitting devices have been made which are as bright as fluorescent lamps at applied voltages of only a few volts; photovoltaic solar energy conversion using conjugated polymer composites is in industrial production; conjugated polymer transistors, circuits and chips have been demonstrated. Indeed, semiconducting and metallic polymers can be thought of as electronic 'inks'. The advances
in printing technology (ink-jet printing, off-set printing, etc) combined with the science and technology of conducting polymers will revolutionize the way in which electronic devices are manufactured. In addition, semiconducting and metallic polymers can be used in applications which require special
mechanical properties such as flexibility.
The field of semiconducting and conducting polymers has become one of the most attractive areas of interdisciplinary materials science and technology. Ranging from physics, chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering to the optical sciences, this field covers a wide range of competences and interdisciplinary knowledge.
Table of Contents
- 1. Electronic Structure of p-conjugated polymer chains
- 2. Doping of Conducting Polymers
- 3. Novel Properties Generate New Opportunities
- 4. Disorder Induced Metal-Insulator (M-I) Transition in Conducting Polymers
- 5. Metallic State of Conducting Polymers
- 6. Nonlinear Excitations in Conjugated Polymers: Solitons, Polarons and Bipolarons
- 7. Solitons, polarons and bipolarons: Experimental results
- 8. Conjugated Polymers as Semiconductors
- 9. Polymer Based Light Emitting Diodes (PLEDs) and Displays Fabricated from Arrays of PLEDs
- 10. Light Emitting Electrochemical Cells (LEC)
- 11. Semiconducting Polymers as Laser Materials
- 12. Photoinduced Electron Transfer from Semiconducting Polymers to Acceptors
- 13. Photodiodes and Photovoltaic Solar Cells
- 14. Polymer Field Effect Transistors (FETs)
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