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NE 476

Organic Electronics

Undergraduate

Winter 2025 · Winter 2025 – Hany Aziz 1

Topics

  • Organic molecular orbitals, conjugation, HOMO and LUMO levels
  • Photophysics, excited states and radiative/non-radiative transitions
  • Excitons and energy transfer
  • Charge generation, hopping, mobility and traps
  • OLED injection, transport, luminescence, efficiency and ageing
  • Organic photoreceptors, photodetectors and photovoltaic devices
  • Organic semiconductor materials and thin-film transistors
  • Possible quantum-dot OLEDs and conducting polymers

Readings

  • Electronic Processes of Organic Crystals and Polymers
    Pope and Swenberg · 2nd · unspecified
    Oxford, 1999; general reference.
  • Essentials of Molecular Photochemistry
    Gilbert and Baggott · unspecified
    CRC Press, 1991; general reference.
  • Organic Semiconductors
    H. Meier · unspecified
    Verlag Chemie, 1974; general reference.
  • Physics of Organic Semiconductors
    Wolfgang Brütting · 1st · unspecified
    Wiley, 2005; general reference.
  • Organic Electronics: Materials, Manufacturing, and Applications
    Hagen Klauk · 1st · unspecified
    Wiley, 2006; general reference.
  • Electrical Transport in Solids: With Particular Reference to Organic Semiconductors
    Kao · 1st · unspecified
    Pergamon, 1981; general reference.
  • No textbook is required. Lecture notes and handouts are provided.
    unspecified
Winter 2022

Topics

  • OLEDs
  • Electronic structure of organic molecules
  • Molecular photophysics
  • Excitons and energy transfer
  • Charge conduction in organic solids
  • OLED technology
  • Organic light-harvesting devices
  • Organic materials and thin-film transistors

Readings

  • Electronic Processes of Organic Crystals and Polymers
    Pope and Swenberg · 2nd · recommended
    Oxford, 1999
  • Essentials of Molecular Photochemistry
    Gilbert and Baggott · recommended
    CRC Press, 1991
  • Organic Semiconductors
    H. Meier · recommended
    Verlag Chemie, 1974
  • Physics of Organic Semiconductors
    Wolfgang Brütting · 1st · recommended
    Wiley, 2005
  • Organic Electronics: Materials, Manufacturing, and Applications
    Hagen Klauk · 1st · recommended
    Wiley, 2006
  • Electrical Transport in Solids: With Particular Reference to Organic Semiconductors
    Kao · 1st · recommended
    Pergamon, 1981
  • Lecture notes and handouts are provided.
    unspecified
  • ECE 634 students review approved research papers; individual papers are selected during the course.
    unspecified
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