High field phenomena in insulating polymers

Much research on electrical properties of insulating polymers has been done for a long time to improve their insulation performance. However, high field phenomena in actual insulating polymers are not well understood yet because of their complicated solid structures. They are also sensitive to additives, impurities, electrode materials and so on. In this paper, several topics on carrier transport, high-field conduction and interfacial phenomena are reviewed and their physical backgrounds are discussed. The carrier transport and high field phenomena in organic materials used in organic devices such as organic LED and organic transistor are also described compared with insulating polymers.