title: Organic nanowire fabrication and device applications.
abstract: Organic nanowires (ONWs) are flexible, stretchable, and have good electrical properties, and therefore have great potential for use in next-generation textile and wearable electronics. Analysis of trends in ONWs supports their great potential for various stretchable and flexible electronic applications such as flexible displays and flexible photovoltaics. Numerous methods can be used to prepare ONWs, but the practical industrial application of ONWs has not been achieved because of the lack of reliable techniques for controlling and patterning of individual nanowires. Therefore, an "individually controllable" technique to fabricate ONWs is essential for practical device applications. In this paper, three types of fabrication methods of ONWs are reviewed: non-alignment methods, massive-alignment methods, and individual-alignment methods. Recent research on electronic and photonic device applications of ONWs is then reviewed. Finally, suggestions for future research are put forward.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 790-784, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sung-Yong
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Min
authors.forename: Tae-Sik
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yeongjun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Himchan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Wentao
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Tae-Woo
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D007834:Lasers; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D053770:Nanowires / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000737:chemistry*; D014173:Transistors, Electronic
chemical_list: D009930:Organic Chemicals
keywords: nanowire alignment; nanowire printing; organic field-effect transistors; organic light-emitting devices; organic nanowires; organic photovoltaics; polymer nanowires