Organic Electronics Materials: New Revenues and New Challenges

In fact, many of the conducting and dielectric materials used in organic electronics are actually inorganic. Silver is a widely used conductor, of course. Silicon dioxide is frequently used as a dielectric. Silver is hard to beat, being nature’s best electrical conductor with a conducting oxide to boot. But silicon dioxide isn’t the world’s greatest dielectric. It can be a bit leaky in thin films, for example. Our connections in the organic electronics world tell us that the search is on for new, better (and perhaps) organic dielectrics.