The Handbook of Polymers in Electronics has been designed to discuss the novel ways in which polymers can be used in the rapidly growing electronics industry. It provides discussion of the preparation and characterisation of suitable polymeric materials and their current and potential applications coupled with the fundamentals of electrical, optical and photophysical properties. It will thus serve the needs of those already active in the electronics field as well as new entrants to the industry.

The object of this book is to review and to discuss some important applications of polymers in electronics. The first three chapters discuss the current primary applications of polymers in semiconductor device manufacturing: polymers as resist materials for integrated circuit fabrication, polyimides as electronics packaging materials, and polymers as integrated circuits encapsulates.

Polymers in Electronics: Optoelectronic Properties, Design, Fabrication, and Applications brings together the fundamentals and latest advances in polymeric materials for electronic device applications, supporting researchers, scientists and advanced students, and approaching the topic from a range of disciplines. The book begins by introducing polymeric materials, their dielectric, optical, and thermal properties, and the essential principles and techniques for polymers as applied to electronics. This is followed by detailed coverage of the key steps in the preparation of polymeric materials for opto-electronic devices, including fabrication methods, materials design, rheology, encapsulation, and conductive polymer mechanisms. The final part of the book focuses on the latest developments in advanced devices, covering the areas of photovoltaics, transistors, light-emitting diodes, and stretchable electronics. In addition, it explains mechanisms, design, fabrication techniques, and end applications. This is a highly valuable resource for researchers, advanced students, engineers and R&D professionals from a range of disciplines. Offers introductory coverage of polymeric materials for electronics, including principles, design, properties, fabrication and applications Focuses on key issues such as materials selection, structure-property relationships and challenges in application Explores advanced applications of polymers in photovoltaics, transistors, sensors, light-emitting diodes and stretchable electronics

Developed from a symposium at the 203rd Meeting of the ACS in San Francisco, April 1992, this volume presents new information on advanced polymers for applications in the manufacture of electronic devices and systems. The 38 chapter-papers are organized in four sections: chemically amplified resists; top-surface imaging and dry development resists; electron-beam, X-ray, and photoresists; and polyimides and dielectric polymers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Discusses patterning, insulating, and packaging polymeric materials for the $150-billion microelectronics industry as well as the rapidly emerging nanoelectronics and organic electronics industries. Chapters discuss patterning, insulating, and packaging polymeric materials as well as organic materials for nanoelectronics, organic electronics, and optoelectronics. This book covers the synthesis, characterization, structure-property relationship, performance, and applications of these materials.

This conference saw presentations from all parts of the electronics industry's materials supply chain, from raw materials to finished products and offered an opportunity to learn more about both traditional and new polymer materials, their markets, manufacturing processes and applications. It also covered the impact of legislation, the need to recycle and other polymer related challenges and opportunities for the industry.