Organic Functional Materials: From LCD to Molecular Circuits

Introduction into chemistry, physics, applications and industrial aspects of organic functional materials for electronics industry. The focus of the course is on small molecules and their supramolecular chemistry: • Materials for liquid crystal displays (LCD): design, synthesis and structure-property relationships • Basics of organic electronics: physics and structures of organic conductors, semiconductors and superconductors • Materials for organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays and their function • Organic semiconductors for printed field effect transistors (OFET) • Organic photovoltaics (OPV) and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) • Basics of molecular nanoelectronics: physics, structures and methods • Unimolecular wires, diodes, transistors, memory and circuits