Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP), Germany

The institute with six research groups under the leadership of six directors is one of the internationally leading research centres in the field of polymer science.

At the MPIP, new soft and macromolecular materials are developed in the fields of biomedicine and electronics. Further focus points are the understanding of physical, chemical and biological phenomena at interfaces as well as the theory of polymers in order to understand their properties and interactions.

The aim of the Molecular Electronics group at MPIP is to exploit the real potential of intrinsic semiconducting materials that will push the field strongly forward. The combination of intrinsic electronic polymer properties with well-defined nanostructures as being developed at MPI-P will provide unique properties that will open a bright future to new applications in electronics such as OLEDs, OPVs and OFETs and biology.

At the Max Institute for Polymer Research, all tools and analysis equipment is available to carry out the project activities in the frame of TADF characterisation. State-of-the-art AFM, TEM, SEM, GIWAXS, light microscopy, as well as spectroscopic tools such as UV-ViS and luminescence (both time-resolved and steady state) is readily available. The Department of Molecular Electronics at MPIP has besides state-of-the art glove-box and cleanroom-fabrication facilities, sample equipment for controlled (and sequential) thin film processing at its disposal. Moreover, MPIP/Molecular Electronics offers state-of-the-art tools for steady state and transient electrical characterization of (luminescent) semiconducting and conducting thin films and devices.