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Prerequisites: basics of biology (molecular biology of the cell), and applied physics (fluidics and electrical field)

Evaluation: Written examination

Total number of hours: 22.5h (3 ECTS)

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   B204: Organic Electronics
   

Main professor: Dr. Jean-Manuel Raimundo (Aix – Marseille University)

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Objectives: This course aims at introducing the student to modern organic electronic applications. The field of organic semiconductor based electronics has seen significant and unprecedented progress in the past decades. Low-cost, less energy intensive and high-throughput production, implementation on flexible and non-planar surfaces, novel applications, as well as the potential to move to more environmentally friendly electronics have made this technology very attractive. Wide ranges of applications are being currently explored, and in some areas have matured and have moved into production or are into industrial development.

The course will review basic concepts of physics and chemistry underlying the design factors, the structure-property relationship, fabrication and operation in the most common electronic device applications. The course will start with an introduction to conventional microelectronics: physics of inorganic semiconductors, description and operating mode of the most common devices (diodes, transistors). Based on specific examples, the course will delineate in what organic electronic devices differ from their inorganic counterparts. Then, the course will focus on the factors governing the physical properties based notably on the chemical structures (molecules versus oligomers and polymers) their structure-property relationship and the design factors that should be taken into account for specific applications. Finally a selection of industrial applications will be presented as well as some aspects of the prospective and ongoing research development.

Outline (with number of hours per part)	Lect	PSS	LW
Physics of semiconductor devices: properties of semiconductors materials, metal-semi- conductor junction; metal insulator-semiconductor junction and field-effect transistors. Physical chemistry of conjugated and organic materials: definition; energy diagram, mechanisms of electronic transport. Organic electronic devices: fabrication, operating mode performance. Chemical structures, structure-property relationship and design factors governing the physical properties. Ongoing research development and selected industrial examples	3 3 4 1.25

Prerequisites: This is a fairly freestanding course, so it can be taken without prior knowledge. However, some knowledge of solid-state, physics, electronics properties of organic materials, semiconductor physics and basic organic/organometallic chemistry, physical chemistry, self-assembly processes will be useful.