1st Edition

Conjugated Polymer And Molecular Interfaces Science And Technology For Photonic And Optoelectronic Application

    Defines the state-of-the-art in interface science for electronic applications of organic materials. Updates understanding of the foundaiton of interfacial properties. Describes novel electronic devices created from conjugated polymers and organic molecular solids.

    Foreword, Preface, Contributors, 1. Functional Dendritic Thin Films and Monolayers, 2. A Theoretical Study of Electrical Contacts to Self-Assembled Molecular Wires on Conducting Substrates, 3. A Theoretical Insight into Organic Interfaces in Electro-Optic Devices, 4. Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Interfaces for Polymer-Based Electronic Devices, 5. Role of Interfaces in Semiconducting Polymer, 6. Studies of Organic Thin Films and Interfaces by Various Electron Spectroscopies: Molecular Orientation, Electronic States, and Reactions, 7. Organic-Metal Interfaces: From Physisorption to Covalent Bonding, 8. Electronic Structure of Interfaces Between Organic Molecules and van der Waals Surfaces, 9. Indium-Tin-Oxide Thin Films for Characterization of Electrochemical Processes in Molecular Assemblies: Surface Characterization and Surface Modification, 10. Energy Level Alignment at Organic-Metal Interfaces, 11. Organic Molecular Interfaces: Investigations of Electronic Structure, Chemistry, and Carrier Injection Properties, 12. Metal-Polyfluorene Interface and Surface: Structures and Stability, 13. Femtosecond Photoemission Study of Relaxation and Interface Charge Transfer Dynamics in Organic Photoreceptors, 14. STM-Excited Electroluminescence and Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymers, 15. Contact-Limited Hole Current in Poly(/?-phenylenevinylene), 16. Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Using Akaline-Earth Fluorides as an Electron Injection Layer, 17. Characterization of Metal Interfaces to Molecular Media from Analysis of Transient and Steady-State Electrical Measurements, 18. Molecular-Sized Structural Trap at Organic-Metal Interface and Photocurrent Multiplication Phenomenon, 19. Charge Injection into Disordered Organic Semiconductors, 20. Energy Structures of Molecular Thin-Film/Metal Interfaces in Air, 21. Metal-Organic Schottky Energy Barriers: Measurements and Device Implications, 22. Nanometric Electrostatic Phenomena at Molecular Interfaces, 23. Modifying Interfaces to Semiconducting Polymers: PEDOT in Polymer Microelectronics, 24. Electron and Hole Injection Processes in OLEDs Consisting, 25. Preparation of Single Crystalline van der Waals Surfaces: Tips for Beginners, 26. Molecular Control of Electron and Hole Injection at Electrodes and at Organic Layer Interfaces in Organic Electroluminescent Devices, Index

    Biography

    William R. Salaneck (Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden), Kazuhiko Seki (Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan), Antoine Kahn (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey) and Jean-Jacques Pireaux (Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium)