Its a branch of Electronics that deals with the conductive polymers and molecules.Rather than using the conventional copper and silicon which are ofcourse the inorganic type ,the plastic electronics makes use of the organic substances to form a circuit or even a device as LED. It is called 'organic' electronics because the polymers and small molecules are carbon-based.
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Check out this wikilinkTraps in plastic electronics are basically the energy levels that are found in the forbidden energy gap.So the electrons get stuck in them while making transition from higher level to lower or vice-versa.
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"An electron current is injected into a higher molecular orbital, situated just above the energy gap. After injection, the electrons move toward the middle of the LED and fall down in energy across the forbidden energy gap, converting the energy loss into photons. As a result, an electrical current is converted into visible light.
However, during their passage through the semiconductor, a lot of electrons get stuck in traps in the material and can no longer be converted into light. In addition, this trapping process greatly reduces the electron current and moves the location where electrons are converted into photons away from the center of the device.
"This reduces the amount of light the diode can produce," explained Herman Nicolai, first author of the Nature Materials paper."
How to overcome these traps?
A research has shown that if such polymers could be designed where the trap energy levels are higher than that of the maximum energy level where the electron can move,the electrons would not get stuck.
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