Organic Electronics

High-performance materials for organic electronics

Merck is a leading industrial supplier of organic electronics (OE) materials and formulations for the photovoltaics industry. Under the brand name lisicon^® , we offer novel printable polymers for cost-efficient organic solar cell production in ready-to-use formulations. Thanks to their solution processability, our materials can be easily processed using a variety of fabrication techniques from spin coating and ink-jet printing to roll-to-roll processes such as gravure and flexographic printing.

Your advantages - Performance, higher mobility and efficiency

Based on more than 10 years of development experience, Merck continuously optimizes its OE formulations for photovoltaics to achieve various performance advantages such as higher mobility and higher efficiency. In addition, their excellent air stability enables processing in ambient conditions, and the final products show exceptional operation lifetime. Merck customers benefit from our state-of-the-art R&D center, large-scale manufacturing facilities, and our global supply chain and support infrastructure.

Applications - For next-generation printed electronic devices

Organic electronics is an advanced and innovative branch of electronics that has great potential for the photovoltaics industry. A significant benefit of OE technology is the possibility of low-cost, solution-processed fabrication methodologies that offer maximum freedom in terms of size, form factor and application architecture.

Printable OE formulations from Merck can be customized to application-specific requirements and are compatible with mass-production printing techniques.

The technology - What is organic electronics?

OE materials use conjugated aromatic (very stable) carbon-based molecules with delocalized electronic systems tailored to exhibit optimum charge-transport properties. Merck incorporates these materials into ready-to-use ink formulations, enabling direct solution printing of the integrated semiconductor materials onto various surfaces. As demanded by high-performance applications, synthesis of these specialty materials is carried out under high-purity conditions, also considering environmental issues.

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