Volume 81. Conducting Organic Materials and Devices

Preface 1 Introduction 1.1 Advantages of conducting polymers 1.2 Early attempts for applications 1.3 Growth and properties 1.4 Active Devices 2 Polyacetylene 2.1 Structure, Growth, and properties 2.1.1 Structure 2.1.2 Growth and doping of Polyacetylene 2.2 Band-structure of t-PA 2.3 The solitons and the polarons 2.3.1 The solitons 2.3.2 The polarons 2.4 Transport properties 2.4.1 Mobility in selected polymers 2.4.2 Conductivity and susceptibility 3 Optical and Transport Properties 3.1 Effect of electric field on photoluminescence(PL) 3.2 The dielectric constant 3.3 Space Charge Limited Currents 3.3.1 Early work of Mott. The Poisson and continuity equations in a trap-free insulator 3.3.2 Effect of background doping 3.4 Polymers: The solids with traps 3.4.1 Poisson equation with trapped charges 3.4.2 Single level traps 3.4.3 Gaussianly distributed traps 3.5 Exponential traps 3.5.1 Calculation of J(V) 3.6 Relaxation of the approximation pt À p 3.6.1 J V curves when pt 6À p 3.6.2 Trap-filled limit 3.7 Effect of finite (non-zero) Schottky barrier 3.7.1 Importance of finite barriers 3.7.2 Theory 3.7.3 Results and discussion 3.7.4 Comparison with experiment 3.8 Combined effect 3.9 Temperature effects 3.9.1 Temperature effects in PPV-based polymers 3.9.2 Recent work 3.9.3 Temperature effects in MEH-PPV. Recent work 3.9.4 Temperature Effects in Alq3 3.10 The mobility model of charge transport 3.