Engineered Polymers and Nanocomposites for Electronic Applications

Abstract

newline Among the foremost examined semiconductors, conjugated polymers (CPs) are very newlinecrucial material for their potential application in the subsequent era of electronic devices by a newlineroll-to-roll printing method such as light transmitting diodes, photovoltaics, thin film newlinetransistors, etc. The easiness in the transportation of charge carriers inside the CPs leads to newlinetheir performance characteristics. Even though within the past two decades extensive research newlinehas been carried out by the scientific community to get it the charge transport mechanism in newlineCPs, agreements have been well set up that the morphology of CPs in their thin films serves newlineas the prime factor which impacts the device parameter profoundly. The prime reason behind newlinesuch vast interest in CPs is the excellent processability and much cost-effectiveness of organic newlinematerials, which ultimately leads to the revival of new technology, i.e., polymer electronics or newlineorganic electronics. The final investigation with this technology is based on sustainability, newlinereliability, and performance. However, hardly any materials can be found, which qualify over newlinethese criterions. From the cost perspective, although the materials cost is surprisingly low, but newlinefabrication and packaging costs may enhance the entire cost of the device. Therefore, the newlinesuccessful application of organic materials will be determined by capturing a low-cost newlineinnovative fabrication technique which enables the fabrication of organic devices over largearea newlinesubstrates. newlineApart from the cost issue, the primary concerns are the performance of organic electronic newlinedevices. The problems connected with the device performance are further related to the newlinedegradability of materials with respect to time and application cycles, stability, and electronic newlineproperties, mainly mobility. Nearly all these parameters are directed by the structural order newlineand alignment of the semiconducting polymer molecules/chains compared to the intrinsic newlineelectronic properties of the materials itself.