Pflaum Group

Organic semiconductors, in particular polyaromatic hydrocarbons, have experienced a tremendous increase in attention mainly due to their utilization in up-to-date opto-electronic thin film devices, such as organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). Further promising results on organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) and photovoltaic cells (OPVCs) have been achieved, paving their way towards innovative device concepts for future application. Yet, many fundamental processes in this material class are still unsolved or even have to be discovered.
Therefore, the research activities of our group aim for a fundamental understanding of the material inherent properties, like charge carrier mobility or exciton diffusion length, in crystalline organic materials and for an implementation of the gained knowledge to further improve existing thin film devices concepts, namely OTFTs and OPVs, as well as to develop strategies for novel molecular electronics, such as single photon sources on demand.

Highlight: New Paper on the tuning of electronic and ionic transport by carbon-based additives in polymer electrolytes
                   for thermoelectric applications

Highlight: New Paper on the role of molecular arrangement on the strongly coupled exciton-plasmon polariton dispersion in
                   metal-organic hybrid structures