Organic Light Emitting Devices

Introduction
Inorganic Semiconductors for LEDs
Physics of OLEDs
Photophysics of Emissive Materials
Optimisation of OLEDs
Optimisation of Multilayer OLEDs
Synthesis of Electroluminescent Polymers
Hole-transporting, Hole-blocking and Electron-transporting Materials for OLEDs
Dendrimer-based OLEDs
Layer-by-layer Processing of OLEDs
Semiconductor Nanoparticle/Polymer Hybrid OLEDs
Electrophosphorescent Devices
Low Threshold Organic Semiconductor Lasers

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Professor Klaus Müllen joined the Max-Planck-Society in 1989 as one of the directors of the Max-Planck-Institue for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. he obtained his diploma in chemistry in 1969 from the University of Cologne, and completed his PhD at the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1972. He joined the ETH Zurich and was appointed lecturer (Privatdozent) after finishing his habilitation in 1977, and moved on to a professorship at Cologne University two years later. He followed a call to the chair of organic chemistry at Mainz University in 1983. He received the Max Planck research prize in 1997 and the Phillip-Morris research prize in 1999, and has been visiting scientist at Osaka, Shanghai, Leuven, Jerusalem, Cambridge and other distinguished universities.

Prof. Dr. Ullrich Scherf studied chemistry at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1988 on the synthesis of PPV-type organic semiconductors and carbonization of polymer films. He subsequently spent one year at the Institute for Animal Physiology of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig isolating and characterizing of cockroach hormones. He joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, in 1990 and completed his habilitation in 1996 on polyarylene-type ladder polymers. He followed a call to the University of Potsdam, Germany, onto a professorship for polymer chemistry. In 2002, he became full professor for Macromolecular Chemistry at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany. He has published over 350 refereed papers and received the Meyer-Struckmann Research Award in 1998.

K. Müllen, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Mainz, Germany; U. Scherf, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany