Springer Organic Optoelectronic Materials: 91 (Lecture Notes in Chemistry, 91)

This volume reviews the latest trends in organic optoelectronic materials. Each comprehensive chapter allows graduate students and newcomers to the field to grasp the basics, whilst also ensuring that they have the most up-to-date overview of the latest research. Topics include: organic conductors and semiconductors; conducting polymers and conjugated polymer semiconductors, as well as their applications in organic field-effect-transistors; organic light-emitting diodes; and organic photovoltaics and transparent conducting electrodes. The molecular structures, synthesis methods, physicochemical and optoelectronic properties of the organic optoelectronic materials are also introduced and described in detail. The authors also elucidate the structures and working mechanisms of organic optoelectronic devices and outline fundamental scientific problems and future research directions. This volume is invaluable to all those interested in organic optoelectronic materials. From the Back Cover This volume reviews the latest trends in organic optoelectronic materials. Each comprehensive chapter allows graduate students and newcomers to the field to grasp the basics, whilst also ensuring that they have the most up-to-date overview of the latest research. Topics include: organic conductors and semiconductors; conducting polymers and conjugated polymer semiconductors, as well as their applications in organic field-effect-transistors; organic light-emitting diodes; and organic photovoltaics and transparent conducting electrodes. The molecular structures, synthesis methods, physicochemical and optoelectronic properties of the organic optoelectronic materials are also introduced and described in detail. The authors also elucidate the structures and working mechanisms of organic optoelectronic devices and outline fundamental scientific problems and future research directions. This volume is invaluable to all those interested in organic optoelectronic materials. About the Author Yongfang Li is a professor in the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), since 1993. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry in 1986 from Fudan University and then came to ICCAS as a postdoctoral fellow working on conducting polymers with Prof. Renyuan Qian in 1986~1988. He did visiting research on organic semiconductors in Prof. Hiroo Inokuchi's laboratory in Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Japan, from 1988 to 1991 and on electrochemistry of conducting polymers and polymer light-emitting electrochemical cells in Prof. Alan J. Heeger's laboratory in University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA, from 1997 to 1998. His present research interests are polymer solar cells and related photovoltaic materials.