WOLEDs and Organic Photovoltaics

Recent Advances and Applications

A major global issue that the world is facing today is the upcoming depletion of fossil fuels and the energy crisis. In 1998, the global annual energy consumption was 12. 7 TW; of which 80% was generated from fossil fuels. This also translates into huge annual emissions of CO that leads to massive environmental problems, 2 particularly the global warming, which could be disastrous. Future global annual energy needs are also estimated to rise dramatically. A major challenge confronting the world is to ?nd an additional 14–20 TW by 2050 when our energy reserves based on fossil fuels are vanishing. The massive demand for energy would require materials and/or processes that would help to provide new sources of clean ren- able energy or to develop processes that would harvest energy or to better utilize energy in an ef?cient manner. The present monograph, WOLEDs and Organic Photovoltaics – Recent Advances and Applications, focuses on a very important and timely subject of topical interest that deals with the more ef?cient use of energy through white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) for solid-state lighting and the development of clean sources of renewable energy through the harvesting of light energy for conversion into electrical energy in organic photovoltaics. While LED solid-state lighting and photovoltaics have been dominated by inorganic semiconductor materials and silicon-based solar cells, there have been growing interests in the development of WOLEDs and organic photovoltaics.

Devices
Energy Harvesting
OLED
Organic Amorphous Films
Organic photovoltaics
Photovoltaics
Polymers
Renewable energy
Solar cells
WOLED
electronics
material
solar cell
solar energy

Front Matter
Overview and Highlights of WOLEDs and Organic Solar Cells: From Research to Applications
White-Emitting Polymers and Devices
Phosphorescent Platinum(II) Complexes for White Organic Light-Emitting Diode Applications
Solid-State Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells Based on Cationic Transition Metal Complexes for White Light Generation
Horizontal Molecular Orientation in Vacuum-Deposited Organic Amorphous Films
Recent Advances in Sensitized Solar Cells
Implications of Interfacial Electronics to Performance of Organic Photovoltaic Devices
Improving Polymer Solar Cell Through Efficient Solar Energy Harvesting
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Dept. Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong/PR China
Vivian W. W. Yam

Book Title
WOLEDs and Organic Photovoltaics

Book Subtitle
Recent Advances and Applications

Editors
Vivian W. W. Yam

Series Title
Green Energy and Technology

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14935-1

Hardcover ISBN
978-3-642-14934-4
Published: 20 November 2010

Softcover ISBN
978-3-642-26605-8
Published: 02 January 2013

eBook ISBN
978-3-642-14935-1
Published: 19 November 2010

Series ISSN
1865-3529

Series E-ISSN
1865-3537

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
VII, 240

Topics
Organic Chemistry, Renewable and Green Energy, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Optical and Electronic Materials, Physical Chemistry

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