Conducting polymer-based device

Although some electrochromic displays offer some advantages over LED and LCD displays (e.g. lower power consumption than LEDs, multiple colours and wider viewing angles than LCDs), they have been hampered by a number of disadvantages. In particular, they have tended to suffer from shorter lifetimes and lower numbers of operational cycles, and it remains to be seen whether the newly emerging conductive-polymer-based devices are able to improve upon this limitation. 

Metal Oxide Nanoiibers/Conducting Polymer-Based Devices... 

The last decade has seen the development and refinement of many optoelectronic devices that rely on conducting polymers, such as LEDs, photodiodes,flat-panel displays, solar cells, and transistors.In several cases, such devices are rapidly nearing commercialization. However, a significant obstacle to the commercial development of conducting polymer-based devices has been their high susceptibility to photo-oxidation under ambient conditions,which degrades die device performance and limits device lifetime. 

Major advances for manufacturing conducting-polymer-based immunoassay devices... 

Snook, G.A., Kao, P., Best, A.S., 2011. Conducting-polymer-based supercapacitor devices and electrodes. 

G. A. Snook, P. Kao, A. S. Best, Conducting-Polymer-Based Supercapacitor Devices and Electrodes. /. Power Sources 2011,196, 1-12. 

Due to the relatively high voltage used in typical EL devices, the specific resistance of the transparent conductor can be relatively low, at around 10 fl/sq. Therefore, it is possible to replace the normally used ITO by a conducting polymer [59,60] such as PEDT PSS. Even though the polymer has a lower specific conductance compared to ITO, all of the layers in the polymer-based device can be applied by printing techniques such as silkscreen printing. ITO, on the other hand, must usually be applied by costly sputtering deposition techniques. 

Somani, R, A.B. Mandale, and S. Radhakrishnan. 2000. Study and development of conducting polymer-based electrochromic display devices. Acta Materialia 48 2859-2871. 

Mazzoldi, A. and De Rossi, D. (2000). Conductive-polymer-based structures for a steerable catheter, in Y. Bar-Cohen (ed.), Smart Structures and Materials 2000 Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, WA), pp. 273-280. 

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