Liquid crystalline semiconductors

Fig. 14 Typical examples of liquid-crystalline semiconductors with low molecular weight exhibiting a columnar phases and b smectic phases...

Thermally and mechanically stable thin film formation is indispensable for fabrication of practical electronic devices such as organic light-emitting diodes, field-effect transistors, and particularly for flexible electronic papers. There are two approaches for formation of thermally and mechanically stable thin films. One is formation of glassy semiconductors retaining ordered structures by cooling from liquid-crystalline states [94]. The other approach is polymerization of liquid-crystalline semiconductors with a reactive moiety. 

Fig. 18 Electroluminescence device based on a uniaxially aligned liquid-crystalline semiconductor layer emitting linearly polarized light...

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Charge Carrier Transport in Liquid Crystalline Semiconductors... 

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Columnar Liquid Crystalline Semiconductors Table 3.2 (continued)... 

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