Studies of Organic Semiconductors for 40 Years—VIII

Abstract

Abstract Research in organic semiconductors started in China during the wake of press release of pyrolyzed polyacrylonitrile (PAN) as a semiconductor by the Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R. in 1958. Big interest was aroused at that time in various research institutions throughout China, particularly Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Institute of Physics and Institute of Chemistry, all of Academia Sinica. This wave of studies slacked up gradually and was virtually stopped in mid-sixties. Then research in this field resumed in early seventies, oriented toward the search for organic photoconductors, and materials for photovoltaic devices and electrophotography. In August 1978 Professor Martin Pope of New York University gave a series of lectures in Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Beijing, on the electronic processes in organic solids. The lecture notes supplemented with more recent developments in organic metallic conductors have been published.1 Some fifty researchers participated in this work...