Abstract

Conjugated polymers have emerged as a novel class of materials with the optical and electronic properties Of semiconductors in combination with the processing advantages and mechanical properties of polymers. Optical quality thin films of such materials can be readily fabricated by spin-casting from common solvents. Such thin films have been demonstrated to exhibit potentially important optoelectronic phenomena and to serve as the active elements in a growing number of "plastic" optoelectronic devices; including, for example, the following.

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