Strategy for faster speed solution-processed organic photodiodes
Speaker: Siddhartha Saggar
Affiliation: University of Queensland
Abstract
Several contemporary applications like data communication and biomedical sensing and imaging, require devices for light sensing. A class of next-generation light sensors is organic material based photodetectors. Though similar in design to organic solar cells, organic photodiodes (OPDs) have a different set of figure-of-merit which uniquely affects the optimisation of device architecture. In the presentation, we briefly cover some key figure-of-merit of OPDs, and also take up in detail the speed of OPD response. This parameter is associated with the device’s ability to detect fast variation in incident light intensity and is pertinent towards faster data communication applications. We introduce a strategy for augmenting response-speed of OPDs, and support it through experimental and analytical justification. Resultantly, we report amongst the first, solution-processed OPDs with response-speed in MHz domain without application of external bias voltage to reduce charge-transit times.
Reference: Adv. Funct. Mater 31, 19, 2010661 (2021)
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