Syllabus
1. Inorganic and organic semiconducting material - basic differences.
2. Properties of organic materials.
3. Electron states in organic semiconductors, electron structure.
4. Optical excitations, excitons, transport of energy.
5. Conformation molecular changes in excited state, photochromic effect.
6. Nonlinear optical effects.
7. Generation and photogeneration of charge carriers.
8. Charge carrier injection and capture.
9. Charge carrier transport, solitons, polarons.
10. Electrical conductivity, charge carrier mobility.
11. Experimental techniques for characterization of organic semiconductors.
12. Special aplications of organic semiconductors, thin film transistors, photodetectors, electroluminiscent diodes, sensors.
Annotation
Electron states, electron structure, charge generation and transport, excitons, conformation molecular changes in excited state, photoconductivity, charge injection and capture, optical properties, monomolecular films, synthetic metals, polarons, solitons, molecular electronic elements.