PARC has developed jet - printing processes
for organic semiconductors (including all - printed TFT arrays, pictured) and conductors — resulting in novel functionality and reduced manufacturing costs.
Their results
for the organic semiconductors 4T and P3HT showed that the guest molecules — quite contrary to the expectations — are not uniformly incorporated in the host lattice at all.
Fujifilm Corporation and nano - electronics research institute imec have demonstrated full - color organic light - emitting diodes (OLED) by using their jointly - developed photoresist technology
for organic semiconductors, a technology...
Not exact matches
The technique could be used as a detection sensor
for hydrogen or oxygen gases as well as
for property controls of
organic semiconductors and
organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs).
For example,
organic semiconductors could be made to change their electrical properties, and OLEDs could show on / off switching characteristics by using the energy from gas that is supplied to it.
In the paper published in Nature Energy, the researchers described how they used
organic semiconductors — contorted hexabenzocoronene (cHBC) derivatives —
for constructing the solar cells.
Neon is well known
for being the most unreactive element and is a key component in
semiconductor manufacturing, but neon has never been studied within an
organic or metal -
organic framework until now.
«To us it was important to develop an easily scalable technology platform
for manufacturing large - area printed and flexible electronics based on
organic semiconductors and nanomaterials,» Dr. Abdellah says.
And as a basis
for gas sensors in particular, carbon nanotubes combine advantages (and avoid shortcomings) of more established materials, such as polymer - based
organic electronics and solid - state metal - oxide
semiconductors.
There is also ongoing search
for novel materials
for organic solar cells,
organic metals and
semiconductors.
These contributions «represent a significant step forward in structure - function relationships in
organic semiconductors, critical
for the development of the next generation of flexible electronic devices,» the authors point out.
Chemists at The University of Texas at Arlington have been the first to demonstrate that an
organic semiconductor polymer called polyaniline is a promising photocathode material
for the conversion of carbon dioxide into alcohol fuels without the need
for a co-catalyst.
Oligothiophene (4T) and polythiophene (P3HT), two typical
organic semiconductors, can be doped with a second type of molecule such as a strong electron acceptor (F4TCNQ)
for example to control the electrical conductivity.
These somewhat contradictory theories, none of which is universally valid
for all cases, have now been unified by Oehzelt and developed into a single coherent model based on the electrostatic potential caused by the charge carriers in the metal and the
organic semiconductor.
On the example of pentacene, a common
organic semiconductor, Oehzelt has quantitatively checked the model's predictions
for interface losses.
One important class of
organic solar cells uses dyes applied to a
semiconductor material like titanium dioxide (TiO2),
for example.
Therefore,
organic dyes are promising lightweight materials
for application as e.g.
organic semiconductors, but also in
for instance LCD displays or solar cells.
Among these materials,
organic semiconductors have received much attention
for use in next - generation OEDs because of the potential
for low - cost and large - area fabrication using solution processing.
Kaveh - Baghbadorani has been exploring the development of hybrid metal /
organic semiconductor nanowires that work as an energy pump to compensate
for energy losses in the metal coating.
His research led to the discovery of a liquid crystalline thiophene polymer which has served
for over a decade as a benchmark
semiconductor, employed in fundamental studies of the properties of
organic field effect transistors, demonstrating the feasibility of solution processed
organic polymers, and provided the impetus
for advances in the field.
The success of this effort relies on new or improved processing techniques and materials
for plastic electronics, including methods
for (i) rubber stamping (microcontact printing) high - resolution (≈ 1 μm) circuits with low levels of defects and good registration over large areas, (ii) achieving low leakage with thin dielectrics deposited onto surfaces with relief, (iii) constructing high - performance
organic transistors with bottom contact geometries, (iv) encapsulating these transistors, (v) depositing, in a repeatable way,
organic semiconductors with uniform electrical characteristics over large areas, and (vi) low - temperature (≈ 100 °C) annealing to increase the on / off ratios of the transistors and to improve the uniformity of their characteristics.
It shows, in particular, how rubber - stamped circuit elements can be combined with
organic semiconductors to form active matrix backplanes
for large sheets of electronic paper.
A high mobility
semiconductor is required
for the pixel electronics in an OLED display, and making this layer
organic (as well as the emitter materials) is the real breakthrough as it fully enables the flexibility and industrial benefits of OLED displays.
Rhodes, J. and Weston, C., «A comparison of
organic and inorganic
semiconductor nanomaterials
for integrated - electronics solutions,» Somename Journal Vol.