Large-area low-noise flexible organic photodiodes for detecting faint visible light

Canek Fuentes-Hernandez; Wen Fang Chou; Talha M. Khan; Larissa Diniz; Julia Lukens; Felipe A. Larrain; Victor A. Rodriguez-Toro; Bernard Kippelen

doi:10.1126/science.aba2624

Large-area low-noise flexible organic photodiodes for detecting faint visible light

Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Wen Fang Chou, Talha M. Khan, Larissa Diniz, Julia Lukens, Felipe A. Larrain, Victor A. Rodriguez-Toro, Bernard Kippelen

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Silicon photodiodes are the foundation of light-detection technology; yet their rigid structure and limited area scaling at low cost hamper their use in several emerging applications. A detailed methodology for the characterization of organic photodiodes based on polymeric bulk heterojunctions reveals the influence that charge-collecting electrodes have on the electronic noise at low frequency. The performance of optimized organic photodiodes is found to rival that of low-noise silicon photodiodes in all metrics within the visible spectral range, except response time, which is still video-rate compatible. Solution-processed organic photodiodes offer several design opportunities exemplified in a biometric monitoring application that uses ring-shaped, large-area, flexible, organic photodiodes with silicon-level performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	698-701
Number of pages	4
Journal	Science
Volume	370
Issue number	6517
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba2624
State	Published - 6 Nov 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Large-area low-noise flexible organic photodiodes for detecting faint visible light

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