The interest in plastic electronics and photonics has experienced a significant increase in the last decades due to the exceptional optical, semiconducting and mechanical properties of these materials. Plastic electronics, based on conjugated polymers, combine the benefits of cost-effective processability compatible with large-area deposition for designing laser geometries of virtually any shape. This is impossible with rigid inorganic semiconductor materials. These highly luminescent materials have been incorporated into a variety of resonator geometries such as photonic crystals or distributed feedback (DBF) cavities to enable optically pumped conjugated polymer lasers with emission across the visible and near-infrared spectrum.
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Source: Phys.org