Abstract:
Research and development in organic electronics has risen dramatically since the
observation of conductivity in doped polyacetylene as shown by Shirakawa,
McDiarmid and Alan. J. Heeger1,2. Over the last few decades, it has been a vibrant
field of research and development encompassing chemistry, physics, materials
engineering and even biology. At the core of this field is the interesting interplay of
the ?-electronic structure in conjugated carbon chains with their chemical nature
which has led to the realization of fascinating electronic devices such as organic lightemitting
diodes3, organic field effect transistors4 and organic solar cells5.
