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Film Stabilizaiton And Photophysics Of Unconventional Conjugated Polymers, Kara Martin
Film Stabilizaiton And Photophysics Of Unconventional Conjugated Polymers, Kara Martin
Doctoral Dissertations
Conjugated polymers offer a unique opportunity to develop high performing, flexible, lightweight, and large area electronic devices. With advances in conjugated polymer understanding and synthesis, the use of polymers as active layer materials in electronic applications, rather than just substrate materials, has become more promising. However, defects in morphological stability, as well as imperfect electronic understanding, are still present, limiting the use of these materials in commercializable electronics. Fundamental understanding of structure-property relationships can allow for facile synthetic solutions to major drawbacks of conjugated polymer integration in standard device architectures. Chapter 1 presents background research on the history of conjugated …
Design And Application Of Organic Electronic Materials: Pendant Tuning In Polymeric And Molecular Systems, Jonathan S. Tinkham
Design And Application Of Organic Electronic Materials: Pendant Tuning In Polymeric And Molecular Systems, Jonathan S. Tinkham
Doctoral Dissertations
Designing and synthesizing materials for use in organic electronic materials requires fine control over their optical and electronic properties. Variations through substitution can be used to tune solubility and electronic properties, but this can result in degradation of other properties. Substitution with orthogonal pendant groups in both molecular and polymeric systems has the potential for allowing tunability while decreasing the perturbation of other desirable properties of the parent system. This idea was explored through experimental and computational work. Computational modelling was used to understand and predict the properties of molecular and polymeric systems to narrow the wide number of choices …
Visualizing And Controlling Charge Transport In Conjugated Polymer Networks And Films, Andrew Davis
Visualizing And Controlling Charge Transport In Conjugated Polymer Networks And Films, Andrew Davis
Doctoral Dissertations
VISUALIZAING AND CONTROLLING CHARGE TRANSPORT IN CONJUGATED POLYMER NETWORKS AND FILMS MAY 2014 ANDREW R. DAVIS, B.S., UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA M.S., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Kenneth R. Carter The desire for more commercially feasible flexible electronic plastics has led to the development of increasingly complex conjugated polymer architectures and device geometries. Through these efforts, tremendous advances have been made in the design and performance of electronic devices fabricated with solution-processable semiconducting polymers. However, none of these materials have yet reached commercial maturity, so the opportunity for their further exploration from both a …