Handbook of Flexible Organic Electronics

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High-barrier films for flexible organic electronic devices

D. Georgiou,  and S. Logothetidis     Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Abstract

Encapsulation of the active layers of organic electronic devices developed onto flexible polymeric substrates is one of the most challenging issues in the rapidly emerging area of organic electronics. A promising approach for the encapsulation of flexible organic electronics includes the development of multilayers that consist of hybrid polymer materials and inorganic layers onto polymeric substrates. This chapter gives an overview of the current available high-barrier materials and encapsulation technologies. Moreover, we discuss the properties of the inorganic and hybrid barrier materials ...