Phototransistors Based on A Lightly Doped P3HT

MRS Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (37-38) ◽  
pp. 1975-1982
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Debesay ◽  
Sam-Shajing Sun

AbstractOrganic/Polymeric Semiconductor (OSC) based devices have been under extensive study for the past three decades due to their intrinsic potential advantages such as lightweight, mechanical flexibility, biocompatibility, low toxicity, abundant material availability, low cost of processing, etc. A phototransistor incorporates the properties and functions of a transistor and photodetector. In this study, a phototransistor based on a donor/acceptor (D/A) pair (photo-doping) was studied and demonstrated. Unlike in organic photovoltaics (OPV) where 1:1 proportion by mass of the donor:acceptor is utilized to make up the active layer, that ratio appears to be too high for phototransistor applications. According to literature, this 1:1 concentration leads to low overall device performance, lack of I-V curve saturation (kink effect), and bipolar behavior. By altering fabrication techniques and doping concentrations, we were able to demonstrate a donor/acceptor based phototransistor with p-type characteristics with improved performance. In this work, we fabricated a high-performance OFET based on a very small amount of Phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) doped into a Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) host. With this work, a greater understanding behind the optimization of D/A based phototransistors is advanced.

Polymers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Wang ◽  
Hong Wang ◽  
Bing Liu

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted much attention in developing high-performance, low-cost, flexible thermoelectric (TE) materials because of their great electrical and mechanical properties. Theory predicts that one-dimensional semiconductors have natural advantages in TE fields. During the past few decades, remarkable progress has been achieved in both theory and experiments. What is more important is that CNTs have shown desirable features for either n-type or p-type TE properties through specific strategies. Up to now, CNT‒polymer hybrids have held the record for TE performance in organic materials, which means they can potentially be used in high-performance TE applications and flexible electronic devices. In this review, we intend to focus on the intrinsic TE properties of both n-type and p-type CNTs and effective TE enhanced strategies. Furthermore, the current trends for developing CNT-based and CNT‒polymer-based high TE performance organic materials are discussed, followed by an overview of the relevant electronic structure‒TE property relationship. Finally, models for evaluating the TE properties are provided and a few representative samples of CNT‒polymer composites with high TE performance are highlighted.


Author(s):  
Liping Yao ◽  
Danlei Zhu ◽  
Hailiang Liao ◽  
Sheik Haseena ◽  
Mahesh kumar Ravva ◽  
...  

Due to their advantages of low-cost, light-weight, and mechanical flexibility, much attention has been focused on pi-conjugated organic semiconductors. In the past decade, although many materials with high performance has...


RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 7732-7737
Author(s):  
Fenying Wang ◽  
Dan Wang ◽  
Tingting Wang ◽  
Yu Jin ◽  
Baoping Ling ◽  
...  

Fluorescent molecularly imprinted polymer (FMIP) gains great attention in many fields due to their low cost, good biocompatibility and low toxicity. Here, a high-performance FMIP was prepared based on the autocatalytic silica sol–gel reaction.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Wang ◽  
Yizhuo Wang ◽  
Qing Li ◽  
Zhanchao Li ◽  
Liqing Xu ◽  
...  

Abstract The transport mechanism of organic materials is still far away from being well understood and controlled although conducting polymers have been discovered since 1977. It is rare to see conducting polyers possessing high bipolar (p- and n-type) electrical conductivities within a single bulk doped organic polymer without the assistant of gate voltage. Here, we report a novel approach to provide high performance n-type materials by p-type doping. More importantly, the bipolar electrical conductivities of the donor-acceptor conducting polymer are high, resulting high bipolar power factors among the solution-processable ambipolar D-A copolymers. A fully organic p-n junction is created in a planar film, exhibiting a high rectification ratio of 2 x 102 at +5 V with a high current density of 3 A/cm2. Structural and spectroscopic tests have been performed to provide a fundamental understanding of the polarity switching mechanism. The results open the opportunity of making p- and n-type modules with a single conducting polymer for future modern organic electronics.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 260-269
Author(s):  
Huijuan Ran ◽  
Zhen Zhao ◽  
Xuewei Duan ◽  
Fuli Xie ◽  
Ruijun Han ◽  
...  

Three donor–acceptor (DA)-type pyrene-based blue emitters with good thermal stability and their applications in NUV OLEDs are demonstrated.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 1436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Cheng Chiu ◽  
Tzu-Ying Chen ◽  
Chu-Chen Chueh ◽  
Hung-Yu Chang ◽  
Kenji Sugiyama ◽  
...  

2022 ◽  
Vol 2152 (1) ◽  
pp. 012008
Author(s):  
Qian Chen

Abstract Metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) is essential to compose high-performance electronic devices, however, the investigation on p-type MOS is relatively rare compared with its n-type counterpart. In this work, LaGaO3 thin films with superior p-type conductivity have been prepared via a facile solution process. Moreover, we have implemented Al2O3 and SiO2 as the dielectric of the p-channel LaGaO3 thin film transistors (TFTs) annealed at different temperatures. Particularly, the LaGaO3/Al2O3 TFTs annealed at 700 °C exhibit an ultrahigh hole mobility of 12.4 cm2V-1s-1, Under the same conditions, LaGaO3/Al2O3 thin film transistor is two orders of magnitude higher than LaGaO3/SiO2 thin film transistor. The advanced p-type characteristics of the LaGaO3 thin film, along with its facile low-cost fabrication process can shed new light on future design of high-performance complementary MOS circuit with other optimized facile-integrated dielectrics.


2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 214-222
Author(s):  
Bin Liu ◽  
Huiliang Sun ◽  
Chang Woo Koh ◽  
Mengyao Su ◽  
Bao Tu ◽  
...  

Compared with p-type terpolymers, less effort has been devoted to n-type analogs. Herein, we synthesized a series of n-type terpolymers via incorporating three electron-deficient third components including thienopyrroledione (TPD), phthalimide, and benzothiadiazole into an imide-functionalized parent n-type copolymer to tune optoelectronic properties without sacrificing the n-type characteristics. Due to effects of the third components with different electron-accepting ability and solubility, the resulting three polymers feature distinct energy levels and crystallinity. In addition, heteroatoms (S, O, and N) attached on the third components trigger intramolecular noncovalent interactions, which can increase molecule planarity and have a significant effect on the packing structures of the polymer films. As a result, the best power conversion efficiency of 8.28% was achieved from all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) based on n-type terpolymer containing TPD. This is contributed by promoted electron mobility and face-on polymer packing, showing the pronounced advantages of the TPD used as a third component for thriving efficient n-type terpolymers. The generality is also successfully validated in a benchmark polymer donor/acceptor system by introducing TPD into the benchmark n-type polymer N2200. The results demonstrate the feasibility of introducing suitable electron-deficient building blocks as the third components for high-performance n-type terpolymers toward efficient all-PSCs.


Author(s):  
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Chen Ming ◽  
Pengfei Qiu ◽  
Kunqi Xu ◽  
Qing Xu ◽  
...  

In the past decade, the development of high-performance p-type flexible organic-inorganic thermoelectric composites based on nanocarbons (e.g. carbon nanotubes and graphene) has achieved unprecedented success, but the progress in n-type...


RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (17) ◽  
pp. 9409-9413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Gu ◽  
Yang Li ◽  
Yanfei Mu ◽  
Min Zhang ◽  
Tongbu Lu ◽  
...  

We have employed low-cost FeCl3 as efficient dopant of Spiro-OMeTAD for high performance perovskite solar cells.


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