Special Polymers for Electronics and Optoelectronics

1 Conductive polymers.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Traditional routes to conductive polymers.- 1.3 Conduction mechanisms.- 1.4 Conducting polymers.- 1.5 Applications.- 1.6 Conclusions and commercial prospects.- References.- 2 Electrodepositable resists.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Principles of electrodeposition.- 2.3 Polymers for electrodepositable resists.- 2.4 Electrodepositable resist formulation.- 2.5 Applications of electrodepositable resists.- 2.6 Summary and conclusions.- References.- 3 Polymeric Langmuir—Blodgett films.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Polymerization of Langmuir—Blodgett materials.- 3.3 Electrical properties.- 3.4 Optical properties.- 3.5 Concluding remarks.- References.- 4 Nonlinear materials.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Characterization.- 4.3 ?2 polymers.- 4.4 ?2 polymers.- 4.5 Polymeric devices.- References.- 5 Ferroelectric polymers.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Ferroelectric polymer materials.- 5.3 Properties of ferroelectric polymers.- 5.4 Applications of ferroelectric polymers.- 5.5 Conclusions.- References.- 6 Electroactive composites.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Composite designs.- 6.3 Diphasic models.- 6.4 Preparation and characterization.- 6.5 Composite poling.- 6.6 Applications.- References.- 7 Thermotropic liquid crystal polymers.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Liquid crystal polymer fundamentals.- 7.3 Processing.- 7.4 Property profiles.- 7.5 Applications.- 7.6 Outlook.- References.- 8 Photoconductive polymers.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 General background.- 8.3 Materials.- 8.4 Experimental techniques.- 8.5 Applications.- References.- 9 Polymers for optical data storage.- 9.1 Introduction: the need for optical storage.- 9.2 The principles of optical storage.- 9.3 Polymers in the recording layer.- 9.4 Polymers in the manufacture of optical media.- 9.5 Polymers foroptical heads.- 9.6 Polymers for cartridges.- 9.7 Other forms of optical storage.- 9.8 The future for polymers in optical data storage.- References.