POLYMER ELECTRONICS

The kind of electronics which deals with new electrically conducting and semi- conducting organic polymers is called polymer electronics. In dependence on their chemical structure plastics may exhibit electrically conductive, semi-conductive or insulating properties. The insulating quality of organic materials, especially of polymers, has long been deployed in the field of electrical engineering. With the deployment of such materials for electronic applications, the words "polymer electronics" were shaped. They are derived from their chemical structure, which contains so-called "conjugated polymer main chains", consisting of a strictly alternating sequence of single and double bonds. Consequently, these polymers possess a delocalized -electron system giving it semi-conducting properties, and after chemical doping can even be made conductive. Additionally to their conducting or semi conducting features, these materials can - under certain circumstances - emit light and therefore be used in organic light-emitting diodes, so called OLEDs.Polymer electronics is thin and flexible and is printed onto a polyester film in several layers.