«These materials are quantum hybrid materials, possessing physical
properties of both organic semiconductors and inorganic semiconducting quantum wells.
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).
«It is important to understand the fundamental processes involved in the molecular electrical doping
of organic semiconductors more precisely,» explains Salzmann, continuing: «If we want to successfully employ these kinds
of materials in applications, we need to be able to control their electronic
properties just as precisely as we customarily do today with inorganic
semiconductors.»
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.
In 2005 a group
of engineers at IMEC, a microelectronics company based in Leuven, Belgium, overcame a major technological hurdle by constructing a diode made
of pentacene, an
organic compound that has
semiconductor properties.