Field organic materials

Vanden Bout D A, Kerimo J, Higgins D A and Barbara P F 1997 Near-field optical studies of thin-film mesostructured organic materials Acc. Chem. Res. 30 204-12... 

Another impetus to expansion of this field was the advent of World War 11 and the development of the atomic bomb. The desired isotope of uranium, in the form of UF was prepared by a gaseous diffusion separation process of the mixed isotopes (see Fluorine). UF is extremely reactive and required contact with inert organic materials as process seals and greases. The wartime Manhattan Project successfully developed a family of stable materials for UF service. These early materials later evolved into the current fluorochemical and fluoropolymer materials industry. A detailed description of the fluorine research performed on the Manhattan Project has been pubUshed (2). 

In plasma chromatography, molecular ions of the heavy organic material to be analy2ed are produced in an ionizer and pass by means of a shutter electrode into a drift region. The velocity of drift through an inert gas at approximately 101 kPa (1 atm) under the influence of an appHed electric field depends on the molecular weight of the sample. The various sonic species are separated and collected every few milliseconds on an electrode. The technique has been employed for studying upper atmosphere ion molecule reactions and for chemical analysis (100). 

Small tire chips have also been utilized as a soil amendment to improve athletic playing fields (see Recreational surfaces). A patented process marketed under the trade name Rebound (fai Tire) combines cmmb mbber from scrap tires with composted organic material to reduce soil compaction, resulting in better athletic playing surfaces (52). Installations have been made in Florida, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Virginia, and Wisconsin. 

Figure 14-13. Evolution of the field-effect mobility of OFETs for five organic materials polythio-phenc (PT) and its derivatives, qualerthiophcne (4T), scxithio-phenc (6T), dihcxyl-sexithiophene (DH6T). and pcntaecnc.

One has to consider that in Eqs. (9.15)—(9.17) the mobility /t occurs as a parameter. As it will be pointed out below, // shows a characteristic dependence on the applied electric field typical for the type of organic material and for its intrinsic charge transport mechanisms. For the hole mobility, //, Blom et al. obtained a similar log///,( ) const. [E dependency [88, 891 from their device modeling for dialkoxy PPV as it is often observed for organic semiconductors (see below). 

In contrast to the solid state concepts presented above, Ioannidis et al. [90] describe the organic materials as amorphous molecules. This model is suitable to fit 1/V characteristics of LEDs based on Alq3 and PPVs with a low mobility (j.ik 1CT, h cm2 V 1 s l). Essentially, they found that the current flow through these materials can be attributed to the increase in the mobility (sec Eq. (9.18)) with the applied voltage, which has been observed for many conjugated polymers [91 ]. In the case that the mobility exponentially increases with the electric field, the current flow raids ... 

This section describes only a few of the organizing features of solid materials. The rapidly growing field of materials science addresses these and many other atomic and molecular aspects of solids that determine the technologically useful properties of materials. 

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