1 An Introduction to Organic Semiconductors. - 1. 1 Organic Semiconductor Device History. - 1. 2 Recent Advances and Trends in Organic Semiconductor Devices. - 1. 3 Issues to Overcome for Diffusion of Organic Semiconductor Devices. - 1. 4 Organic Semiconductors vs. Traditional Silicon Semiconductors. - 2 Organic Semiconductor Materials. - 2. 1 Introduction. - 2. 2 The Chemistry of Semiconductors Based on Organic Materials. - 2. 3 Polymeric Semiconductors. - 2. 4 Molecular and Physical Properties. - 2. 5 Charge Transport Mechanism. - 2. 6 Passive Materials and Packaging. - 2. 7 Summary and Outlook. - 2. 8 Chapter 2 References. - 3 Manufacturing Platforms for Printing Organic Circuits. - 3. 1 Critical Material Parameters for Printing Organic Circuits: Suspensions Solutions and the Solids State. - 3. 1. 8 Transitional Discussion for Proposed PrintingPlatforms. - 3. 1. 9 Section 3. 1 References. - 3. 2 Lithography. - 3. 3 Flexography. - 3. 4 Basic Principles of Gravure Printing. - 3. 5 Pad Printing. - 3. 6 Screen Printing. - 3. 7 Digital Printing. - 3. 8 Soft Lithography. - 4 Electrical Behavior of Organic Transistors and Circuits. - 4. 1 Device Structures Characterization and Modeling. - 4. 2 Organic Polymer Field-Effect Transistors. - 4. 3 Organic Transistor Complementary Circuits. - 5 Applications. - 5. 1 Risks and Opportunities. - 5. 2 Technological Considerations. - 5. 3 Commercial Aspects of Organic Electronic Applications. - 5. 4 Acknowledgement. - 5. 5 References. - 6 Molecular Electronics. - 6. 1Introduction. - 6. 2 Past 30 Years of Molecular Electronics/Nanotechnology. - 6. 3 Processing Technologies (Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up). - 6. 4 Performance. - 6. 5 Issues/Challenges. - 6. 6 Future Directions. - 6. 7 Summary. - 6. 8 Acknowledgement. - 6. 9 Chapter 6 References. - Authors. Language: English