Polymers for Electronics and Photonics

Recently, polymers show promising prospects as active constituents of optical and electronic devices, especially polymers for nonlinear optics and conducting polymers. In a remote future even organic ferromagnets and molecular electronics may become more than wishful thinking. For this reason several fundamental aspects of these materials are the subject of intensive research. In this paper we will review the present state of the art in these new fields of polymers for electronics and photonics. Special emphasis will be laid on recent results from our laboratories.

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