Distributed generation-the power paradigm for the new millennium [Book Review]

Warrendale, PA 15086 Phone +1 724 779 3003 http://www.mrs.org ISBN# 1-55899-661-3 284 pp. $78.00 members, $90.00 non-members (Hardback), 2002 This volume, from the MRS Spring 2002 meeting in San Francisco, CA, contains papers that cover some of the recent advances in polymeric LED’s, photovoltaics, organic materials for nonlinear optics, and transistors. Therefore, readers interested in these fields of organic opto-electronics will find many interesting and informative papers in these proceedings. With regard to light emitting polymers, there is an invited paper on the synthesis of novel light emitting polymers, one on the influence of barrier materials on device performance, and a few others on transport properties. Selected papers on organic transistors include organic materials selection, charge transport properties, and processing and device design. Two photovoltaic papers of interest cover the influence of microstructure in organic solar cells, and characteristics of polyfluorene based devices. A couple of papers of potential interest in the nonlinear organic materials section include two on conducting polymers. And there is one on inherently conducting polymeric thinfilms (structure and morphology differences in pyrrole and thiophene) and the other on blends of polystyrene/liquid crystalline polymer with carbon black (CB) (resistivity for various amounts of CB to polymer ratio at different shear rates for sensors applications).