Laboratory Training in Fabrication & Characterization of Organic Devices

Achilleas Savva and Stelios A. ChoulisMolecular Electronics & Photonics Laboratory

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and EngineeringCyprus University of Technology

LimassolSeptember 2014

Course Description (5 ECTS)Τhe course provides an introduction to experimental techniques used for the processing and characterization of organic electronic materials and optoelectronic devices. Subjects include: 1) The main categories of electronic materials suitable for organic electronic applications (conjugated and conductive polymers, small molecules, metal oxides, metals, etc 2) Materials and device characterization techniques with emphasis in their electrical and optical properties. 3) Low cost solution processing techniques for the fabrication of organic electronic thin films and optoelectronic devices. 3) Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs) and Light emitting diodes (OLEDs) device fabrication and characterization. The students are taught experimentally the circle of organic electronic materials for device applications (Structure/Properties/Processing/Devices).

Course Description

Activities PercentageLab Reports 40Participation 10Final Exam 50

Grading

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Content

• Introduction to the Labs

• Lab Exercise 1: Organic Electronic Materials solutions preparation

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Main Body transparencies

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Bibliography

Achilleas Savva and Stelios A. Choulis

• Hoth, C.N., Schilinsky, P., Choulis, S.A, Balasubramanian, S., Brabec, C.J., Solution-processed organic photovoltaics, In: Cantatore, E. (Ed.) Applications of Organic and Printed Electronics - A Technology-Enabled Revolution, Springer: Boston, 2013.

• Frederik C. Krebs, Fabrication and processing of polymer solar cells: A review of printing and coating techniques, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 93 (2009) 394–412.

• Nelson Jenny, The Physics of Solar Cells, Imperial Collage Press, 2003.

• Klaus Müllen, Ullrich Scherf, Organic Light Emitting Devices: Synthesis, Properties and Applications, Wiley (2006) DOI: 10.1002/3527607986.

• F. So, B. Krummacher, M.K Mathai, D. Poplavskyy, S.A Choulis, V.E Choong, Recent progress in solution processable organic light emitting devices, Journal of Applied Physics 102 (9), 091101, (2007)