Materials and devices for organic electronics

Abstract

Organic electronics have attracted much attention in recent years due to their multiple advantages such as high flexibility, easy processing, low fabrication cost, and large area fabrication. These unique advantages make them highly promising for organic solar cells, organic memory devices, organic thin film transistors, organic light emitting diodes, organic photodetectors, organic sensor, and so forth. The performance of organic electronic devices is strongly dependent on the fabrication procedure as well as the processing parameters. Among various fabrication methods to implement these organic electronics devices, spray coating is emphasized because of its compatibility to large area fabrications and industrial mass productions. However, other methods, such as inkjet printing, offer, for example, to reduce the ink material consumption by drop-on-demand design. The recent advances in fabricating organic electronic devices have been carried out with the development of novel materials. Certainly, blending of organic materials to form composites has been developed to improve the properties of the devices, or to lead studies to determine some properties due to their interaction. Complementary modeling studies can be carried out to support the evidence experimentally. In this special issue, the papers address these issues.