1 The Electronic Structure of Organic Semiconductors
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Different Organic Semiconductor Materials
1.3 Electronic States of a Molecule
1.4 Transitions between Molecular States
1.5 Spectroscopic Methods
1.6 Further Reading
References
 
2 Charges and Excited States in Organic Semiconductors
2.1 Excited Molecules from the Gas Phase to the Amorphous Film
2.2 Excited Molecules in Crystalline Phases - The Frenkel Exciton
2.3 Excited States in pi-Conjugated Polymers
2.4 Charged Molecules
2.5 A Comparison between Inorganic and Organic Semiconductors
2.6 Further Reading
References
 
3 Electronic and Optical Processes of Organic Semiconductors
3.1 Basic Aspects of Electrical Current in a Device
3.2 Charge Injection Mechanisms
3.3 Charge Carrier Transport
3.4 Non-Geminate Charge Carrier Recombination
3.5 Generation of Excitations
3.6 Dissociation of Excitations
3.7 Di¿usion of Excitations
3.8 Decay of Excitations
3.9 Further Reading
References
 
4 Fundamentals of Organic Semiconductor Devices
4.1 Basic Solar Cells and Light-Emitting Diode Structures
4.2 Solar Cell Performance
References
 
Chemical Structures
A.1 Selected Polymers
A.1.1 pi-Conjugated Homopolymers
A.1.2 pi-Conjugated Copolymers
A.1.3 Other Polymers of Interest
A.2 Selected pi-Conjugated Low-Molecular Weight Compounds
A.3 Selected Phosphorescent Compounds
A.4 Non-Conjugated Low-Molecular Weight Compounds