Self-Organized Organic Semiconductors

This book focuses on the exciting topic on self-organized organic semiconductors – 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.

Preface. Contributors.  1 Crystal Engineering Organic Semiconductors (Joseph C. Sumrak, Anatoliy N. Sokolov, and Leonard R. MacGillivray). 2 Conjugated Block Copolymers and Cooligomers (Yongye Liang and Luping Yu). 3 Charge Transports and Its Modeling in Liquid Crystals (Jun-ichi Hanna and Akira Ohno). 4 Self-Organized Discotic Liquid Crystals as Novel Organic Semiconductors (Manoj Mathew and Quan Li). 5 Self-Organized Semiconducting Smectic Liquid Crystals (Ji Ma and Quan Li). 6 Self-Assembling of Carbon Nanotubes (Liming Dai). 7 Self-Organized Fullerene Based Organic Semiconductors (Li-Mei Jin and Quan Li). 8 High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells Using Self-Organized Materials (Paul A. Lane). 9 Selective Molecular Assembly for Bottom-Up Fabrication of Organic Thin-Film Transistors (Takeo Minari, Masataka Kano, and Kazuhito Tsukagoshi). Index.