Characterisation of polymers for semiconductor applications

The proposed use of polymers as active semiconductors in a variety of applications ranging from electronics, through electro-optics to photonics represents a major extension to the current widespread commercial interest in polymers as electrically passive materials. In this paper the authors highlight some of the features of the class of material, namely the conjugated polymers that are of principal interest in this context, and they discuss the characterisation of these materials and their interesting physical responses.