Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a source electrode and a drain electrode on a substrate; forming an organic semiconductor layer including a ? conjugated organic compound at least between the source electrode and the drain electrode; applying an application liquid on the organic semiconductor layer, the application liquid being made of a polymer of an alicyclic compound dissolved in a paraffin hydrocarbon solvent that is a carbocyclic compound without having aromaticity; forming a gate insulation layer including the polymer of the alicyclic compound by removing the paraffin hydrocarbon solvent from the application liquid; and forming a gate electrode on the gate insulation layer.

Abstract: An exemplary organic semiconductor copolymer includes a polymeric repeat structure having a polythiophene structure and an electron accepting unit. The electron accepting unit has at least one electron-accepting heteroaromatic structure with at least one electron-withdrawing imine nitrogen in the heteroaromatic structure or a thiophene-arylene comprising a C2-30 heteroaromatic structure. Methods of synthesis and electronic devices incorporating the disclosed organic semiconductors, e.g., as a channel layer, are also disclosed.

Abstract: Polymers are described which exhibit a resistive hysteresis effect. The polymers include a polymer backbone to which pentaarylcyclopentadienyl radicals are bonded as side groups. A resistive memory element is formed that includes the polymer as a storage medium. By applying a voltage, the memory element can be switched between a nonconductive and a conductive state.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a copolymer, which may include side chains which may decrease the surface energy of an insulating layer, thereby improving the alignment of a semiconductor material, and side chains including photoreactive functional groups having an increased degree of cross-linking, thereby improving the characteristics of an organic thin film transistor manufactured using the same, an organic insulating layer composition including the copolymer, an organic insulating layer, an organic thin film transistor, an electronic device including the same and methods of fabricating the same. According to the copolymer of example embodiments, the surface energy of an insulating layer may be decreased, so that the alignment of a semiconductor material may be improved, thereby improving the threshold voltage and charge mobility and decreasing the generation of hysteresis at the time of driving the transistor.

Abstract: A light emitting element having a superior light emitting characteristic is provided by forming a region partly including a phosphor (light emitting region) in manufacturing of a light emitting element having an organic compound layer using a high molecular weight material. A solution in which a high polymer having a degree of polymerization of 50 or more is dissolved in a solvent is applied by a spin coating method, and then a low polymer which is composed of the same repetition units as the high polymer and has a degree of polymerization of 2 to 5 and a phosphor are coevaporated to form a light emitting region (105) and only a low polymer is vapor-deposited on the light emitting region to form an organic compound layer (103). Thus, the light emitting region (105) can be partly formed.

Abstract: Two-terminal switching devices of MIM type having at least one electrode formed by a liquid phase processing method are provided for use in active matrix backplane applications; more specifically, MIM devices with symmetric current-voltage characteristics are applied for LCD active matrix backplane applications, and MIM devices with asymmetric current-voltage characteristics are applied for active matrix backplane implementation for electrophoretic displays (EPD) and rotating element displays. In particular, the combination of the bottom metal, metal-oxide insulator and solution-processible top conducting layer enables high throughput, roll-to-roll process for flexible displays.

Abstract: The electronic device comprises an organic semiconductor material in a monodomain structure on a substrate. Said semiconductor material is preferably part of a transistor, wherein the monodomain extends on the channel, i.e. from a source to a drain electrode. The material comprises a mesogenic unit with spacer groups and end groups. The end groups are preferably reactive, i.e. dienes, acrylates, oxetanes or the like. The mesogenic unit contains a central oligothiophenyl-group, rigid spacer groups, particularly acetylenes, and additional groups, for instance thiophenyl or phenyl.

Abstract: The present memory device has first and second electrodes, a passive layer between the first and second electrodes and on and in contact with the first electrode, and an active layer between the first and second electrodes and on and in contact with the passive layer and second electrode, for receiving a charged specie from the passive layer. The active layer is a mixture of (i) a first polymer, and (ii) a second polymer for enhancing ion transport, improving the interface and promoting a rapid and substantially uniform distribution of the charged specie in the active layer, i.e., preventing a localized injection of the charged species. These features result in a memory element with improved stability, a more controllable ON-state resistance, improved switching speed and a lower programming voltage.

Abstract: Compositions are provided comprising at least one conductive polymer and at least one non-polymeric fluorinated organic acid, salt or ester, wherein the conductive polymer is selected from a polythiophene, a polypyrrole, a polyaniline, and combinations thereof. Electronic devices and applications having at least one layer comprising such compositions are further provided.

Abstract: A spiro-based compound containing cyclopentaphenanthrene and fluorene, which is used for an organoelectroluminescent device and an organoelectroluminescent device having the spiro-based compound. The spiro-based compound containing cyclopentaphenanthrene and fluorene can be easily manufactured to have high solubility, high color purity, and good thermal stability. The spiro-based compound containing cyclopentaphenanthrene and fluorene is suitable as a substance for an organic film, in particular, an emission layer of an organoelectroluminescent device. Further, the spiro-based compound containing cyclopentaphenanthrene and fluorene can be used as an organic dye, or an electron material such as a non-linear optical material.

Abstract: A spirofluorene-type of a blue light-emitting polymer including an indenofluorene repeating unit having a spiroanthracene structure, and an organic electroluminescent display using the polymer. The brightness and efficiency property of the organic electroluminescent display are improved.

Abstract: The present invention describes new types of material mixtures composed of at least two substances, one serving as a matrix material and the other being an emission material capable of emission, the latter comprising at least one element of atomic number greater than 20, and the use thereof in organic electronic components such as electroluminescent elements and displays.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to provide a film formation apparatus capable of forming an EL layer with a high purity and a high density, and a cleaning method. The invention is a formation of an EL layer with a high density by heating a substrate 10 by a heating means for heating a substrate, decreasing the pressure of a film formation chamber with a pressure decreasing means (a vacuum pump such as a turbo-molecular pump, a dry pump, or a cryopump) connected to the film formation chamber to 5×10?3 Torr (0.665 Pa) or lower, preferably 1×10?3 Torr (0.133 Pa) or lower, and carrying out film formation by depositing organic compound materials from deposition sources. In the film formation chamber, cleaning of deposition masks is carried out by plasma.

Abstract: An organic FET 1 comprises a substrate 2 on which a gate insulation film 41 and a functional layer 43 are formed in this order, and a source electrode 6 and a drain electrode 8 are further arranged thereon at a predetermined distance from each other, and furthermore, an organic semiconductor layer 10 is formed on and between the electrodes 6 and 8. The functional layer 43 provided so as to come into contact with the organic semiconductor layer 10 is composed of matrix polymers such as PMMA in which electron acceptors such as p-bromanil are contained.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a cyclopentaphenanthrene-based compound and an organic electroluminescence device using the same. In particular, the cyclopentaphenanthrene-based compound offers several advantages, including easy processibility, high solubility, superior color purity, color stability and thermal stability. Moreover, the cyclopentaphenanthrene-based compound may be used not only as a material for forming an organic layer of an organic electroluminescence device, particularly, a light-emitting layer, but also as a material of an organic pigment or nonlinear optical substance.

Abstract: Electroluminescent devices have an electroluminescent layer incorporating iridium complexes with 2-benzo[b]thiophenyl and benzimidazole ligands such as bis[thiophen-2-yl-pyridine-C2,N?]-2-(2-pyridyl)-benzimidazole iridium

Abstract: The electronic device of the invention comprises one or more active elements, each comprising a first and a second electrode and an active layer of organic material separating the first and second electrodes. Examples of active elements are thin-film transistors and light-emitting diodes. The active layer comprises a polymeric material having conjugated units A and non-conjugated intermediate units B, which intermediate units B separate the conjugated units A from each other, such that no conjugation extends from a first conjugated unit A1 to a second conjugated unit A2. The polymeric material may be a polymer network, an alternating copolymer or a polymer in which the conjugated units are present in side chains. The polymer can be prepared from monomers having a B1-A1-B2 structure, wherein at least one of B1 and B2 comprises a reactive group enabling polymerization.

Abstract: A composition for the formation of an electric field programmable film, the composition comprising a matrix precursor composition or a dielectric matrix material, wherein the dielectric matrix material comprises an organic polymer and/or a inorganic oxide; and an electron donor and an electron acceptor of a type and in an amount effective to provide electric field programming. The films are of utility in data storage devices.

Abstract: The invention is intended to provide an organic EL element provided with a film capable of preventing immigration of impurity even when a material such as dope type PEDOT/PSS of which impurity can immigrate to a light emitting layer is used and a production method therefore, the film of the organic EL element being excellent in uniformity and easily formed. In the organic EL element, a first electrode, an organic light emitting medium layer, and a second electrode are formed on a substrate; the organic light emitting medium layer at least includes a positive hole transport layer and an organic light emitting layer; and a second positive hole transport layer having positive hole mobility in the range of 1×10?4 to 1 cm2/v·s is formed between the positive hole transport layer and the organic light emitting layer.

Abstract: An organic electronic device consists of one or more electro-active organic or polymer materials sandwiched between electrodes. Critical in such devices is the interface between the electrode and the polymer, where degradation or chemical reaction products may develop that are deleterious to the proper functioning of the device. This is solved by introducing a functional interlayer composed of one or more materials consisting of a molecular backbone bearing phosphonate or phosphate functions, either directly attached or through side chains, said functional layer being disposed between at least one of the respective electrodes and said one or more electro-active materials in the device.

Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting device that includes at least one organic layer between a first electrode and an emissive layer wherein the organic layer includes at least two organic materials and at least one of the organic materials consequently has a concentration gradient in the direction from the first electrode to a second electrode through a single solution process by self organization. Since the organic layer has a work function having a gradient in the direction from the first electrode to the second electrode, holes can be injected from the first electrode to the emissive layer, and thereby an organic light emitting device having high efficiency and a long lifetime can be obtained.

Abstract: The present invention provides an oligofluorenylene compound represented by the general formula below, which enables production of an organic light-emitting device that exhibits an extremely pure luminescent hue and has a light emission of high efficiency, high brightness, and long lifetime.

Abstract: The present memory structure includes first and second electrodes, a passive layer, and an active layer containing nitrogen, the passive and active layers being between the first and second electrodes. Metal ions in the active layer bind to the nitrogen thereof, enhancing retention of the metal ions in the active layer for improved, stable data retention.

Abstract: A semiconductor arrangement is disclosed, having transistors based on organic semiconductors and non-volatile read/write memory cells. The invention relates to a semiconductor arrangement, constructed from transistors, in the case of which the semiconductor path is composed of an organic semiconductor, and memory cells based on a ferroelectric effect perferably in a polymer, for use in RF-ID tags, for example.

Abstract: Novel 2,7-di(arylamino)-substituted fluorenes that are further substituted at the 9-position with one or more crosslinkable moieties, oligomers or polymers formed by crosslinking of said crosslinkable moieties, methods for their preparation, and use thereof in forming solvent resistant films having use as interlayers in electronic devices, especially electroluminescent devices.

Abstract: A light-emitting polymer composition comprising a light-emitting polymer and an ion pair, wherein the ion pair has a negative ion of a specific structure in which one group 13 atom and is bonding to an aryl group having an electron-withdrawing group, or a heterocyclic group having an electron-withdrawing group, directly or through a connecting group; or two or more group 13 atoms, and all the atoms are respectively bonding to an aryl group having an electron-withdrawing group, or a heterocyclic group having an electron-withdrawing group, directly or through a connecting group.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a dielectric thin film composition comprising: (1) one or more barium/titanium-containing additives selected from (a) barium titanate, (b) any composition that can form barium titanate during firing, and (c) mixtures thereof; dissolved in (2) organic medium; and wherein said thin film composition is doped with 0.002-0.05 atom percent of a dopant comprising an element selected from Sc, Cr, Fe, Co, Ni, Ca, Zn, Al, Ga, Y, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, Yb, Lu and mixtures thereof and to capacitors comprising such compositions.

Abstract: A light emitting element having a superior light emitting characteristic is provided by forming a region partly including a phosphor (light emitting region) in manufacturing of a light emitting element having an organic compound layer using a high molecular weight material. A solution in which a high polymer having a degree of polymerization of 50 or more is dissolved in a solvent is applied by a spin coating method, and then a low polymer which is composed of the same repetition units as the high polymer and has a degree of polymerization of 2 to 5 and a phosphor are coevaporated to form a light emitting region (105) and only a low polymer is vapor-deposited on the light emitting region to form an organic compound layer (103). Thus, the light emitting region (105) can be partly formed.

Abstract: A circuitized substrate comprising a first layer comprised of a dielectric material including a low moisture absorptive polymer resin in combination with a nodular fluoropolymer web encased within the resin, the resulting dielectric layer formed from this combination not including continuous or semi-continuous fibers as part thereof. The substrate further includes at least one circuitized layer positioned on the dielectric first layer. An electrical assembly and a method of making the substrate are also provided, as is an information handling system (e.g., computer) incorporating the circuitized substrate of the invention as part thereof.

Abstract: A method of forming an electroluminescent device comprising the steps of: providing a substrate comprising a first electrode for injecting charge carriers of a first type; forming an electroluminescent layer having a surface by depositing onto the substrate a composition comprising a host material and a light-emitting dopant monomer of formula (I): A-C—(X)n ??(I) wherein X represents a polymerisable group; A represents a light-emitting group; C represents a bond or a spacer group and n is an integer; rendering at least some of the electroluminescent layer insoluble in a solvent by polymerising the monomer of formula (I); exposing the electroluminescent layer to the solvent; and depositing a second electrode capable of injecting charge carriers of a second type over the electroluminescent layer.

Abstract: There is provided a polymer compound in which a metal complex is bonded to a main chain of a polymer via a substituent for imparting a given distance therebetween. Specifically, a polymer compound is provided which has a partial structure represented by the general formula (1): It is thus rendered possible to improve the yield of synthesis of the polymer compound and to introduce a desired metal complex in a predetermined amount into the polymer compound. It is thus made possible to realize a white-light emitting material or a light emission of a desired color.

Abstract: Multilayer polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs) are demonstrated using semiconducting polymers blended with organometallic emitters as the emissive layer and one or both of an electron transport layer and a hole transparent layer on the appropriate electron injection and hole injection sides of the emissive layer. The transport layers reduce energy potential gaps between the hole injection electrode and the emissive polymer and between the electron injection electrode and the emissive polymer. A solvent-processing based procedure for preparing these devices is also disclosed It uses nonpolar solvent-based solutions of emissive polymers to form the emissive layer and polar solvent-based solutions to form the transport layers to minimize etching and other undesirable interactions as the multiple layers are being laid down.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device which is multilayer LEDs based on the commonly used high-efficiency electroluminescent conjugated polymers and can emitte the whole spectrum by varying voltage; wherein the structure of the device comprises a transparent electrode (TE) or a hole injection layer (HIL), several organic layers and an uppermost electron injection layer (EIL), characterized in choosing material of conjugated polymers with proper electron affinity (EA) and ionization potential (IP) for the organic layers.

Abstract: A low dielectric constant polymer, comprising monomeric units derived from a compound having the general formula I (R1—R2)n—Si—(X1)4-n, wherein each X1 is independently selected from hydrogen and inorganic leaving groups, R2 is an optional group and comprises an alkylene having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an arylene, R1 is a polycycloalkyl group and n is an integer 1 to 3. The polymer has excellent electrical and mechanical properties.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescence display using a metallocene compound, and more particularly to an organic electroluminescence display with a simple structure using a metallocene compound, which has superior photoconductivity, can be used as a p-type semiconductor material, and functions as a superior luminescent material, as a luminescent material.

Abstract: Conductor material for LEDs for improving the light outcoupling, wherein the conductor material is selected from the group comprising hole conductor material, electron conductor material and/or emitter material, the conductor material comprises at least one conductive fluorinated organic substance having at least one fluorinated alkyl substituent, one fluorinated alkenyl substituent and/or one fluorinated alkynyl substituent, wherein at least two fluorine atoms are bonded to at least one carbon atom of the fluorinated substituent, and the conductive fluorinated organic substance has a refractive index of >_1.30 and >_1.55.

Abstract: A polymeric light emitting diode (PLED) device comprises: a substrate; a positive electrode formed above the substrate; a hole transportation layer formed above the positive electrode; an organic light emitting composite layer formed above the hole transportation layer, comprising a plurality of organic light emitting layers, wherein every organic light emitting layer has an polymeric host material with a higher energy gap, and at least one of the organic light emitting layers is doped with an polymeric material with a lower energy gap; and a negative electrode formed above the organic light emitting composite layer.

Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to a polymeric metal complex comprising a polymeric material having a plurality of a first-type functional groups, wherein at least a portion of the functional groups are coordinated to at least one metal containing complex, polymeric-metal complex salts comprising at least one polymeric material having a plurality of first-type functional groups having a charge, and at least one metal complex having an opposite charge. It further relates to devices that are made with the polymeric metal complex or the polymeric-metal complex salt.

Abstract: An organic electro-luminescent device exhibiting an excellent heat resistance, a long serving life and a great efficiency of light emission and producing a light emission ranging from a blue light to a red light. The organic electroluminescent device comprising one or more thin-film layers which contain at least a light emitting layer and are interposed between a cathode and an anode, wherein the light emitting layer contains an amine compound represented by any of the following general formula (A) and a fluorene-based compound represented by any of the following general formula (B).

Abstract: An electro-luminescence device has an anode and a cathode, between which a hole transporting layer, an emitting layer and a hole insulating layer are provided. The emitting layer is made of a material including a light emitting material of polymer doped with two light emitting materials of molecule. A method of making the electro-luminescence applies the wet process to make the hole insulating layer and the emitting layer to simplify the steps and to control the factors of fabrication.

Abstract: To provide a tube comprising a wall, which comprises a fluoropolymer, in particular polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), a perfluoroalkoxy polymer (PFA) and/or a fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP), and a colour marking and/or an X ray contrast marking, which may be identified and/or positioned through the colour marking and/or the X ray contrast marking without relinquishing the advantages of a tube made of fluoropolymer material, it is proposed that the colour marking or the X ray contrast marking comprises at least one marking element, which is produced separately from the wall of the tube and thermally welded to the wall.

Abstract: A method of making organic memory cells made of two electrodes with a controllably conductive media between the two electrodes is disclosed. The controllably conductive media contains an organic semiconductor layer that contains a photosensitive compound. The organic semiconductor layer is formed into memory cells using patterning techniques.