Licht-im-Terrarium: Literaturdatenbank

Since the 1970s, the successful synthesis and controlled doping of conjugated polymers established the important class of organic semiconductors, which was honored with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the year 2000 (Chiang et al. 1977). The main impetus came from the demonstration of high-performance organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) incorporating an organic heterojunction of p- and n-conducting organic semiconductors from vacuum-evaporated molecular films (Tang and Vanslyke 1987) and from conjugated polymers (Burroughes et al. 1990), as well as the first successful fabrication of efficient photovoltaic cells and thin-film transistors from conjugated polymers and oligomers (Tang 1986; Koezuka et al. 1987; Burroughes et al. 1988; Horowitz et al. 1989).