Patterning of Conjugated Polymers for Organic Optoelectronic Devices
- 26 April 2011
- Vol. 7 (10) , 1338-1360
- https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201002336
Abstract
Conjugated polymers have been attracting more and more attention because they possess various novel electrical, magnetical, and optical properties, which render them useful in modern organic optoelectronic devices. Due to their organic nature, conjugated polymers are light‐weight and can be fabricated into flexible appliances. Significant research efforts have been devoted to developing new organic materials to make them competitive with their conventional inorganic counterparts. It is foreseeable that when large‐scale industrial manufacture of the devices made from organic conjugated polymers is feasible, they would be much cheaper and have more functions. On one hand, in order to improve the performance of organic optoelectronic devices, it is essential to tune their surface morphologies by techniques such as patterning. On the other hand, patterning is the routine requirement for device processing. In this review, the recent progress in the patterning of conjugated polymers for high‐performance optoelectronic devices is summarized. Patterning based on the bottom‐up and top‐down methods are introduced. Emerging new patterning strategies and future trends for conventional patterning techniques are discussed.Keywords
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