Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices (2^nd Ed.)

Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices provides a single source of information covering all aspects of OLEDs, including the systematic investigation of organic light-emitting materials, device physics and engineering, and manufacturing and performance measurement techniques. This Second Edition is a compilation of the advances made in recent years and of the challenges facing the future development of OLED technology.

Featuring chapters authored by internationally recognized academic and industrial experts, this authoritative text:

• Introduces the history, fundamental physics, and potential applications of OLEDs
• Reviews the synthesis, properties, and device performance of electroluminescent materials used in OLEDs
• Reflects the current state of molecular design, exemplifying more than 600 light-emitting polymers and highlighting the most efficient materials and devices
• Explores small molecules-based OLEDs, detailing hole- and electron-injection and electron-transport materials, electron- and hole-blocking materials, sensitizers, and fluorescent and phosphorescent light-emitting materials
• Describes solution-processable phosphorescent polymer LEDs, energy transfer processes, polarized OLEDs, anode materials, and vapor deposition manufacturing techniques employed in OLED fabrication
• Discusses flexible display, the backplane circuit technology for organic light-emitting displays, and the latest microstructural characterization and performance measurement techniques
• Contains abundant diagrams, device configurations, and molecular structures clearly illutrating the presented ideas

Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices, Second Edition offers a comprehensive overview of the OLED field and can serve as a primary reference for those needing additional information in any particular subarea of organic electroluminescence. This book should attract the attention of materials scientists, synthetic chemists, solid-state physicists, and electronic device engineers, as well as industrial managers and patent lawyers engaged in OLED-related business areas.

Organic Light-Emitting Devices and Their Applications for Flat-Panel Displays. Light-Emitting Polymers. Small-Molecule Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Phosphorescent Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes. Polarized Light Emission from Organic Light-Emitting Diodes. Transparent Electrode for OLEDs. Vapor-Deposited Organic Light-Emitting Devices. Material Challenges for Flexible OLED Displays. Oxide Thin-Film Transistors for Active Matrix OLEDs. Microstructural Characterization and Performance Measurements.

Zhigang Rick Li is a researcher at DuPont Central Research and Development, Wilmington, Delaware, USA. He earned a BS from Beijing Institute of Technology, China, and a Ph.D from the Laboratoire d'Optique Électronique du CNRS/Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, France. Dr. Li is a recipient of the Sino-France Abroad Study Award. For more than 20 years, he has worked in the field of optoelectronics. He is the author or coauthor of more than 70 professional publications and a book chapter, and the editor or coeditor of two books. He is also the organizer/co-organizer/session chair of many national and international conferences, and has given numerous invited talks. He and his colleagues proposed the "nano-Ag colloids assisted tunneling" current conduction model of front-side metallization contact of p- and n-type crystalline silicon solar cells.