URL study guide
https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=3MN120&collegejaar=2025&taal=enDescription
The course introduces students to current thinking on electrical transport in organic semiconducting and its application in electronic devices.The course addresses charge transport on the molecular length scale using a quantum mechanical approach, on the mesoscopic scale using hopping type simulations and finally also at the macroscopic level using a classical, continuum description. Topics covered
- electronic states in molecules and intermolecular charge transfer
- charge transport in bulk organic semiconductors and its dependence on electric and/or magnetic fields.
- electrical contacts to organic semiconductors
- application of organic semiconductors in devices Performance characteristics of organic electronic devices in relation to their elementary charge transport processes.
Throughout the course concepts from both chemistry and physics will be used to explain the behavior of organic semiconductors and devices.
Objectives
At the end of the course, you:- will be able to give a quantitative description of electrical transport, excitonic processes, charge recombination and charge generation in organic semiconductors,
- will be able to give a quantitative description of the exchange of charges between a contact and an organic semiconductor, leading to charge injection and collection,
- will be able to apply these descriptions to the device physics of organic light-emitting diodes, solar cells, and photodetectors,
- will understand and be able to apply the main concepts of single-molecule electronics.