Electronic Processes in Organic Semiconductors: An Introduction

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.