This book focuses on the exciting topic on self-organized organic semiconductors โ from materials to device applications. It offers up-to-date and accessible coverage of self-organized semiconductors for organic chemistry, polymer science, liquid crystals, materials science, material engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, optics, optic-electronics, nanotechnology and semiconductors. Chapters cover chemistry, physics, processing, and characterization. The applications include photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and transistors.Content:
Chapter 1 Crystal Engineering Organic Semiconductors (pages 1โ19): Joseph C. Sumrak, Anatoliy N. Sokolov and Leonard R. Macgillivray
Chapter 2 Conjugated Block Copolymers and Cooligomers (pages 21โ38): Yongye Liang and Luping Yu
Chapter 3 Charge?Carrier Transport and Its Modeling in Liquid Crystals (pages 39โ81): Jun?Ichi Hanna and Akira Ohno
Chapter 4 Self?Organized Discotic Liquid Crystals as Novel Organic Semiconductors (pages 83โ129): Manoj Mathews and Quan Li
Chapter 5 Self?Organized Semiconducting Smectic Liquid Crystals (pages 131โ163): Ji Ma and Quan Li
Chapter 6 Self?Assembling of Carbon Nanotubes (pages 165โ193): Liming Dai
Chapter 7 Self?Organized Fullerene?Based Organic Semiconductors (pages 195โ224): Li?Mei Jin and Quan Li
Chapter 8 High?Efficiency Organic Solar Cells Using Self?Organized Materials (pages 225โ266): Paul A. Lane
Chapter 9 Selective Molecular Assembly for Bottom?Up Fabrication of Organic Thin?Film Transistors (pages 267โ288): Takeo Minari, Masataka Kano and Kazuhito Tsukagoshi