Course

MSE-486: Organic electronic materials

Lectures in this course (56)

Explores band and band-like transport in materials, including criteria, examples, charge transfer, and second quantization.

Band Transport in Crystalline Solids

Explores band transport in crystalline solids and introduces the second quantization formalism for quantum mechanics.

Polaronic Transport: Criteria and Mechanisms

Explores polaronic transport, where charge carriers become localized due to dynamic disorder, leading to thermal activated hopping.

Polaronic Transport and Disorder

Explores polaronic and disorder-controlled transport mechanisms in materials, including charge transfer and hopping reactions.

Disorder-Controlled Charge Transport

Explores disorder-controlled transport, polaronic transport, and charge carrier behavior in materials.

Disorder-Controlled Charge Transport

Explores criteria for transport in materials, charge transfer, random walk, disorder models, temperature effects, and high charge densities.

Thin Films: Deposition and Growth

Explores thin film preparation, growth mechanisms, organic film considerations, and deposition techniques in electronics.

Organic Electronics: Synthesis of Conjugated Molecules

Covers the synthesis of conjugated molecules for organic electronics and the tuning of band gaps through various reactions.

Patterning Techniques for Organic Devices

Explores patterning techniques for organic devices, covering various methods and printing techniques with their limitations and process parameters.

Organic Thin Film Growth

Explores organic thin film growth methods, nucleation, grain growth, crystal alignment, and solvent vapor annealing.

Organic Electronic Devices: Field-Effect Transistors

Explores organic field-effect transistors, covering their fabrication, working principles, and real device examples.

Patterning Techniques: Lithography and Printing

Explores patterning techniques for organic electronic devices, including lithography and printing methods.

Organic Light-Emitting Diodes: Working Principles and Applications

Explores the working principles and applications of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) for displays and lighting.

Organic Electronic Materials: Field-Effect Transistors

Explores organic electronic materials, focusing on organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) and their operation, characterization, and real-world applications.

Solar Energy Conversion

Explores the potential of solar energy, methods of conversion, organic solar cells, and device structures.

Organic Light Emitting Diodes: Fundamentals and Applications

Explores the fundamentals and applications of Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs), covering device structures, energy diagrams, efficiency improvements, and OLED displays in commercial products.