Electronic Processes in Organic Semiconductors: An Introduction

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From the Back Cover Organic semiconductors have found applications in many areas such as OLEDs, mobile phone displays, lighting, photovoltaics and much more. The understanding of the underlying photophysics as well as the evolution of device technology has come to a mature stage and as such a book is required that provides a useful introduction in a brief, coherent and comprehensive way, with a focus on the fundamentals. Based on a successful and well-proven lecture course given by one of the authors for many years, this book is clearly structured into four chapters: • electronic structure of organic semiconductors,• charges and excited states in organic semiconductors,• electronic and optical properties of organic semiconductors, and• fundamentals of organic semiconductor devices Each chapter is complemented by boxes which explore a particular aspect in greater depth or briefly introduce a feature that may be familiar to one group of readers yet not to another group. Where figures show original spectra, they are redrawn to be presented uniformly on an energy scale in electron-volt throughout this book for ease of comparison. Read more About the Author Anna Koehler has been Professor and Chair of Experimental Physics II at the University of Bayreuth since 2007. After completing her PhD 1996 with Sir Richard Friend at the University of Cambridge, UK, she held Research Fellowships by Peterhouse, Cambridge, and by the Royal Society, UK. She was appointed Professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany, in 2003. Her research centres on the photophysical properties of organic semiconductors, with a focus on energy and charge transfer processes in singlet and triplet excited states.Heinz Baessler is retired Professor at the Bayreuth Institute of Macromolecular Research (BIMF) at the University of Bayreuth. From 1970 to 2002 he worked as Professor in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Philipps University in Marburg in Germany, having obtained his PhD degree in Physics from the Technical University in Munich, Germany, in 1963. His research interest concerns the optoelectronics of organic solids with particular emphasis on charge transport and on the spectroscopy of conjugated polymers. He is widely recognized for his studies on the effects of disorder in organic semiconductors. Read more