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Symbols and Abbreviations |
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About the Companion Website |
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1 Scope of Organic and Molecular Electronics |
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1.2 Organic Materials for Electronics |
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1.3 Molecular Electronics |
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1.3.1 Evolution of Microelectronics |
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2 Materials' Foundations |
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2.2.3 Filling of Orbitals |
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2.3.5 Van der Waals Bonding |
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2.4 Bonding in Organic Compounds |
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2.4.1 Hybridized Orbitals |
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2.4.3 Double and Triple Bonds |
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2.5 Crystalline and Noncrystalline Materials |
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2.5.2 Phase Changes and Thermodynamic Equilibrium |
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2.5.3 The Crystal Lattice |
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2.5.6 Distance between Crystal Planes |
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2.6.3 Polymer Crystallinity |
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2.7 Soft Matter: Emulsions, Foams, and Gels |
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3 Electrical Conductivity |
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3.2.1 Electrical Conductivity |
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3.2.3 Charge Carrier Mobility |
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3.3 Energy Bands in Solids |
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3.3.1 Quantum Mechanical Foundations |
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3.3.2 Kronig-Penney Model |
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3.3.3 Conductors, Semiconductors, and Insulators |
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3.3.4 Electrons and Holes |
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3.3.5 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Conduction |
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3.3.7 Disordered Semiconductors |
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3.3.8 Conductivity in Low-Dimensional Solids |
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3.4.3 Solitons, Polarons, and Bipolarons |
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3.5 Low-Frequency Conductivity |
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3.5.1 Electronic Versus Ionic Conductivity |
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3.5.2 Quantum Mechanical Tunnelling |
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3.5.3 Variable Range Hopping |
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3.5.4 Fluctuation-induced Tunnelling |
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3.5.5 Space-Charge Injection |
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3.5.6 Schottky and Poole-Frenkel Effects |
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3.6 Conductivity at High Frequencies |
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3.6.1 Complex Permittivity |
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3.6.2 Impedance Spectroscopy |
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4 Optical Phenomena |
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4.2 Electromagnetic Radiation |
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4.3.1 Permittivity Tensor |
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4.3.2 Linear and Nonlinear Optics |
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4.4 Interaction of EM Waves with Organic Molecules |
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4.4.1 Absorption Processes |
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4.4.2 Aggregate Formation |
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4.4.4 Effect of Electric Fields on Absorption |
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4.5 Transmission and Reflection from Interfaces |
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4.5.1 Laws of Reflection and Refraction |
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4.5.5 Transmission through Conductive Thin Films |
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4.7.1 The Evanescent Field |
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4.7.2 Surface Plasmon Resonance |
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4.8.1 Subwavelength Optics |
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5 Electroactive Organic Compounds |
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5.2 Selected Topics in Chemistry |
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5.2.1 Moles and Molecules |
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5.4 Charge-Transfer Complexes |
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5.5 Graphene, Fullerenes, and Nanotubes |
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5.6 Piezoelectricity, Pyroelectricity, and Ferroelectricity |
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5.6.2 Organic Piezoelectric, Pyroelectric, and Ferroelectric Compounds |
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6 Tools for Molecular Electronics |
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6.2.2 Electron Microscopy |
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6.3.1 Electron Density Profile |
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6.3.3 In-plane Measurements |
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6.6 Infrared Spectroscopy |
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6.7 Surface Analytical Techniques |
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6.8 Scanning Probe Microscopies |
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6.9 Film Thickness Measurements |
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7 Thin Film Processing and Device Fabrication |
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7.2 Established Deposition Methods |
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7.2.2 Physical Vapour Deposition |
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7.2.3 Chemical Vapour Deposition |
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7.2.4 Electrochemical Methods |
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7.3 Molecular Architectures |
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7.3.1 Langmuir-Blodgett Technique |
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7.3.2 Chemical Self-Assembly |
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7.3.3 Electrostatic Layer-by-Layer Deposition |
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7.4 Micro-and Nanofabrication |
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7.4.2 Nanometre Pattern Definition |
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7.4.3 Nanoimprint Lithography |
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7.4.4 Scanning Probe Manipulation |
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7.4.5 Dip-Pen Nanolithography |
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8 Liquid Crystals and Devices |
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8.2 Liquid Crystal Phases |
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8.2.1 Thermotropic Liquid Crystals |
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8.2.2 Lyotropic Liquid Crystals |
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8.3 Liquid Crystal Polymers |
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8.4.2 Freedericksz Transition |
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8.4.3 Twisted Nematic Display |
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8.4.4 Passive and Active Addressing |
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8.4.5 Full-colour Displays |
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8.4.6 Super-twisted Nematic Display |
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8.5 Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals |
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8.6 Polymer-dispersed Liquid Crystals |
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8.7 Liquid Crystal Lenses |
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8.8 Other Application Areas |
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9 Plastic Electronics |
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9.3 Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor Structures |
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9.3.1 Idealized MIS Devices |
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9.3.2 Effect of Real Surfaces |
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9.3.3 Organic MIS Structures |
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9.4 Organic Field Effect Transistors |
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9.5 Organic Integrated Circuits |
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9.5.1 Radiofrequency Identification Tags |
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9.6 Transparent Conducting Films |
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9.7 Organic Light-emitting Devices |
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9.7.2 Device Architectures |
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9.7.3 Increasing the Light Output |
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9.7.4 Full-colour Displays |
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9.7.6 Light-emitting Electrochemical Cells |
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9.7.7 Organic Light-emitting Transistors |
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9.8 Organic Photovoltaic Devices |
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9.8.1 Photovoltaic Principles |
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9.8.2 Bulk Heterojunctions |
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9.8.3 Dye-sensitized Solar Cell |
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9.8.4 Luminescent Concentrator |
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9.9 Other Application Areas |
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9.9.1 Conductive Coatings |
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9.9.2 Batteries, Supercapacitors, and Fuel Cells |
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10 Chemical Sensors and Physical Actuators |
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10.4.1 Electrochemical Cells |
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10.4.2 Resistive Gas Sensors |
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10.4.3 Dielectric Sensors |
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10.5 Biological Olfaction |
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10.7 Physical Sensors and Actuators |
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10.8 Wearable Electronics |
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11 Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics |
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11.2.2 Interatomic Forces |
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11.3 Engineering Materials at the Molecular Level |
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11.3.2 Nonlinear Optical Materials |
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11.4 Molecular Device Architectures |
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11.5 Molecular Rectification |
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11.6 Electronic Switching and Memory Phenomena |
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11.6.1 Resistive Bistable Devices |
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11.6.3 Ferroelectric RAMs |
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11.6.5 Three-dimensional Architectures |
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11.7 Single-electron Devices |
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11.8 Optical and Chemical Switches |
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11.8.1 Fluorescence Switching |
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11.8.2 Photochromic Systems |
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11.10 Nanotube and Graphene Electronics |
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11.11 Molecular Actuation |
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11.11.1 Dynamically Controllable Surfaces |
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11.12 Molecular Logic Circuits |
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11.13 Computing Architectures |
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11.15 Evolvable Electronics |
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12 Bioelectronics |
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12.2 Biological Building Blocks |
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12.2.1 Amino Acids and Peptides |
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12.5.1 Replication, Transcription, and Translation |
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12.6 The Biological Membrane |
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12.6.1 Transport Across the Membrane |
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12.8.1 Biocatalytic Sensors |
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12.8.2 Bioaffinity Sensors |
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12.10.1 Bacteriorhodopsin |
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12.11.2 Artificial Motors |
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