ABSTRACT
Thin-—lm organic-based devices (electrical, optical, and electro-optic) have many advantages over their inorganic counterparts, such as low cost and low-temperature fabrication, leading to °exible, transparent, and biocompatible devices with high tunability. With these new organic structures comes a signi—cant need for new materials to drive the development of high-performance devices. One such material is genomic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The structure of the DNA molecule, as well as its high optical transparency and tunable electrical conductivity, as discussed in Chapter 8, make it a very useful material for a number of electro-optic (EO) devices. Three of these devices are detailed in this chapter: all-DNA-based electro-optic waveguide modulators (Heckman 2006, 2006), —eld-effect transistors (Bartsch et al. 2007), and bioorganic light-emitting diodes (Hagen 2006; Hagen et al. 2007; Hagen et al. 2006).
