Organic Electronics

 

Organic Electronics

As a healthy body needs an Organic Meal, a healthy society also need an Organic Electronic Devices.

Organic  Electronics  is the branch of Electronics that uses Organic materials to make circuits and other electronics Devices preferably having advantage over traditional inorganic materials that  we were all familiar with.

Since global environmental issues have become significant world-wide problems, the development of eco-friendly, renewable, and biodegradable material with high electrical performance is in great demand for the construction of a sustainable, low-carbon society.

It basically  deals with organic materials, such as polymers or small molecules. The materials used in this kind of technology are carbon based, which is the same as the molecules of living things. When considering the properties of organic materials, we may not generally feel that they are electrical conductors. Organic materials are thought to be excellent insulators for a lot of technological applications.

The discovery of electrically conductive polymers drastically changed our views on polymer materials and formed a basis of the future organic electronics. A lot of success has been achieved in this field and the discovery of conductive polymers has led to interdisciplinary development among  engineers in terms of industrial applications.

Currently, the application of organic electronics is expanding to sustainable and biocompatible devices, or so-called “green electronics” based on the merits of organic materials for flexible and printable electronics Green materials and technologies for electrical application are emerging concepts, which focus on the identification and production of abundant, low-cost organic materials, or precursors, with economically efficient synthetic routes that avoid the usage of toxic solvents

Such processes in Organic Electronics should not generate toxic waste which require expensive handling and disposal. Moreover, the synthesized electronic materials should ensure low-cost fabrication procedures for the adaptation to practical devices, which feature biodegradability and biocompatibility for environmentally friendly disposal.

Organic Electronics has a wide range of Applications in Electronics Industry such as  OLEDs  that is Organic LEDs which  uses the property of phosphorescence to generate it’s own light instead of using backlight. You might have observed this in wristwatches and clock dials that glows in the dark. Second one is  Organic Photovoltaic cell (OPVs) that uses polymers as photovoltaic materials. Third one is Organic Field Effect Transistors (OFETs) that contains conductive electrodes , an organic semiconductors and a dielectric. Biomedicine  and many more such applications.

Therefore, switching from nonrenewable manufacturing to “sustainable” processes is regarded as the major challenge for future, next-generation electronics, and organic materials may offer a unique opportunity to lead the electronics industry in an environmentally safe direction 

Vishal Khambayat

-Joint Technical Director