Organic molecular electronics

Abstract

Organic materials have been used as good insulators. Recently, conducting organic materials have been developed, and electrical and optical devices have been realized using these materials. There are two kinds of organic materials, low-molecular-weight organic materials and polymeric materials; however, their thin films are formed mainly by vacuum and solution processes, respectively. One of the advantages of soluble organic materials is that they can be formed into films by printing during the device fabrication process. In this report, organic materials are discussed for optical and electrical device applications such as organic light-emitting diodes and organic thin-film transistors.