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Tuning Electronic and Morphological Properties for High-Performance Wavelength-Selective Organic Near-Infrared Cavity Photodetectors
Vanderspikken, Jochen,Liu, Quan,Liu, Zhen,Vandermeeren, Tom,Cardeynaels, Tom,Gielen, Sam,Van Mele, Bruno,Van den Brande, Niko,Champagne, Beno?t,Vandewal, Koen,Maes, Wouter
, (2021/11/22)
Incorporation of compact spectroscopic near-infrared (NIR) light detectors into various wearable and handheld devices opens up new applications, such as on-the-spot medical diagnostics. To extend beyond the detection window of silicon, i.e., past 1000?nm, organic semiconductors are highly attractive because of their tunable absorption. In particular, organic NIR wavelength-selective detectors have been realized by incorporating donor:acceptor thin films, exhibiting weak intermolecular charge-transfer (CT) absorption, into an optical microcavity architecture. In this work, the alkyl side chains of the well-known PBTTT donor polymer are replaced by alkoxy substituents, hereby redshifting the CT absorption of the polymer:PC61BM blend. It is shown that the unique fullerene intercalation features of the PBTTT polymer are retained when half of the side chains are altered, hereby maximizing the polymer:fullerene interfacial area and thus the CT absorption strength. This is exploited to extend the detection range of organic narrow-band photodetectors with a full-width-at-half-maximum of 30–38?nm to wavelengths between 840 and 1340?nm, yielding detectivities in the range of 5 × 1011 to 1.75 × 1010 Jones, despite the low CT state energy of 0.98?eV. The broad wavelength tuning range achieved using a single polymer:fullerene blend renders this system an ideal candidate for miniature NIR spectrophotometers.
