Realizing Broadband NIR Photodetection and Ultrahigh Responsivity with Ternary Blend Organic Photodetector.

ABSTRACT: With the advancement of portable optoelectronics, organic semiconductors have been attracting attention for their use in the sensing of white and near-infrared light. Ideally, an organic photodiode (OPD) should simultaneously display high responsivity and a high response frequency. In this study we used a ternary blend strategy to prepare PM6: BTP-eC9: PCBM-based OPDs with a broad bandwidth (350-950 nm), ultrahigh responsivity, and a high response frequency. We monitored the dark currents of the OPDs prepared at various PC₇₁BM blend ratios and evaluated their blend film morphologies using optical microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering. Optimization of the morphology and energy level alignment of the blend films resulted in the OPD prepared with a PM6:BTP-eC9:PC₇₁BM ternary blend weight ratio of 1:1.2:0.5 displaying an extremely low dark current (3.27 × 10^-9 A cm^-2) under reverse bias at -1 V, with an ultrahigh cut-off frequency (610 kHz, at 530 nm), high responsivity (0.59 A W^-1, at -1.5 V), and high detectivity (1.10 × 10¹³ Jones, under a reverse bias of -1 V at 860 nm). Furthermore, the rise and fall times of this OPD were rapid (114 and 110 ns), respectively.

SUBMITTER: Yu YY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9027253 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature