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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.
List 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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
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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.
