Organic Semiconductors in Sensor Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bernards, Daniel A. (Editor), Malliaras, George G. (Editor), Owens, Róisín M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Materials Science, 107
• Subjects: Physics.; Polymers.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Engineering.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Polymer Sciences.; Engineering, general.

Organic semiconductors offer unique characteristics such as tunability of electronic properties via chemical synthesis, compatibility with mechanically flexible substrates, low-cost manufacturing, and facile integration with chemical and biological functionalities. These characteristics have prompte...

Table of Contents:

• Water Soluble Poly(fluorene) Homopolymers and Copolymers for Chemical and Biological Sensors
• Polyelectrolyte-Based Fluorescent Sensors
• Structurally Integrated Photoluminescent Chemical and Biological Sensors: An Organic Light-Emitting Diode-Based Platform
• Lab-on-a-Chip Devices with Organic Semiconductor-Based Optical Detection
• Solid-State Chemosensitive Organic Devices for Vapor-Phase Detection
• Detection of Chemical and Physical Parameters by Means of Organic Field-Effect Transistors
• Performance Requirements and Mechanistic Analysis of Organic Transistor-Based Phosphonate Gas Sensors
• Electrochemical Transistors for Applications in Chemical and Biological Sensing
• PEDOT:PSS-Based Electrochemical Transistors for Ion-to-Electron Transduction and Sensor Signal Amplification.