Abstract: A method for fabricating an organic photovoltaic cell includes providing a first electrode; depositing a series of at least seven layers onto the first electrode, each layer consisting essentially of a different organic semiconductor material, the organic semiconductor material of at least an intermediate layer of the sequence being a photoconductive material; and depositing a second electrode onto the sequence of at least seven layers. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is an anode and the other is a cathode. The organic semiconductor materials of the series of at least seven layers are arranged to provide a sequence of decreasing lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (LUMOs) and a sequence of decreasing highest occupied molecular orbitals (HOMOs) across the series from the anode to the cathode.

Abstract: An organic photovoltaic cell includes an anode and a cathode, and a plurality of organic semiconductor layers between the anode and the cathode. At least one of the anode and the cathode is transparent. Each two adjacent layers of the plurality of organic semiconductor layers are in direct contact. The plurality of organic semiconductor layers includes an intermediate layer consisting essentially of a photoconductive material, and two sets of at least three layers. A first set of at least three layers is between the intermediate layer and the anode. Each layer of the first set consists essentially of a different organic semiconductor material having a higher LUMO and a higher HOMO, relative to the material of an adjacent layer of the plurality of organic semiconductor layers closer to the cathode. A second set of at least three layers is between the intermediate layer and the cathode.

Abstract: A donor substrate includes a base layer, a light to heat conversion layer on the base layer, an interlayer on the light to heat conversion layer, a low molecular weight transfer layer on the interlayer and an organic transfer layer on the low molecular weight transfer layer. The low molecular weight transfer layer includes an element in Group I or a compound of elements in Group I and Group VII.

Abstract: An organic device, including an organic compound having charge-transporting ability (i.e., transporting holes and/or electrons) and/or including organic light emissive molecules capable of emitting at least one of fluorescent light or phosphorescent light, has a charge transfer complex-contained layer including a charge transfer complex formed upon contact of an organic hole-transporting compound and molybdenum trioxide via a manner of lamination or mixing thereof, so that the organic hole-transporting compound is in a state of radical cation (i.e., positively charged species) in the charge transfer complex-contained layer.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes and a plurality of organic layers disposed between the electrodes, and one of the organic layers includes an organic material forming the organic layers and a polymer obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable compound capable of exhibiting charge portability.

Abstract: An electric energy generator may include a semiconductor layer and a plurality of nanowires having piezoelectric characteristics. The electric energy generator may convert optical energy into electric energy if external light is applied and may generate piezoelectric energy if external pressure (e.g., sound or vibration) is applied.

Abstract: A method for producing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming an organic semiconductor layer on a substrate; forming a protective pattern on the organic semiconductor layer; and patterning the organic semiconductor layer by dissolving, in an organic solvent, or subliming the organic semiconductor layer using the protective pattern as a mask.

Abstract: A photoactive layer in organic photodiodes includes organic photoactive dyes, including squaraines with donor-substituted aromatic substituents as the electron donor component, used as an alternative to polymer hold conductors for bulk heterojunctions typically found in the organic active layer of organic photodiodes.

Abstract: A flat organic photodetector has a structured first electrode that forms several sub-electrodes, a second electrode, at least one first organic layer, and a second organic layer. The organic layers are situated between the two electrodes and are structured in conformity with the structuring of the first electrode, so that the two organic layers are subdivided into multiple active regions respectively corresponding to the sub-electrodes of the first electrode. An x-ray detector has such a flat organic photodetector and an x-ray absorbing layer applied thereon.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for selectively structuring of a polymer matrix comprising CNT (carbon nano tubes) on a flexible plastic substructure. The method also includes a suitable etching composition, which allows to proceed the method in a mass production.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polymer light-emitting device having a light-emitting layer arranged between an anode and a cathode, and a hole transport layer arranged between the light-emitting layer and the anode. This polymer light-emitting device is characterized in that the hole transport layer is a layer containing a polymer compound which contains a repeating unit represented by the general formula (I) below, a repeating unit represented by the general formula (II) below and a repeating unit represented by the general formula (III) below.

Abstract: A photoactive device is provided. The device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoactive region disposed between and electrically connected to the first and second electrodes. The photoactive region further includes an organic donor layer and an organic acceptor layer that form a donor-acceptor heterojunction. The mobility of holes in the organic donor region and the mobility of electrons in the organic acceptor region are different by a factor of at least 100, and more preferably a factor of at least 1000. At least one of the mobility of holes in the organic donor region and the mobility of electrons in the organic acceptor region is greater than 0.001 cm2/V-sec, and more preferably greater than 1 cm2/V-sec. The heterojunction may be of various types, including a planar heterojunction, a bulk heterojunction, a mixed heterojunction, and a hybrid planar-mixed heterojunction.

Abstract: An organic EL device is provided with a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer and an electron injection layer between an anode and a cathode, wherein the hole injection layer is obtained by doping a hole transport material with an electron-accepting impurity, and the ionization potential Ip(HIL) of the material of the hole injection layer that composes the hole injection layer (also referred to as a hole injection material in the present description), the ionization potential Ip(HTL) of the hole transport material, and the ionization potential Ip(EML) of the material of the light-emitting layer (also referred to as a light-emitting layer material in the present description) respectively satisfy the relationship of Ip(EML)>Ip(HTL)?Ip(HIL)?Ip(EML)?0.4 eV.

Abstract: An organic photosensitive optoelectronic device includes an anode, a cathode, and a donor-acceptor heterojunction between the anode and the cathode, the heterojunction including a donor-like material and an acceptor-like material, wherein at least one of the donor-like material and the acceptor-like material includes a subphthalocyanine, a subporphyrin, and/or a subporphyrazine compound, wherein the subporphyrin or subporphyrazine compound includes boron.

Abstract: A coaxial molecular stack (10) for transferring photocurrent generation in a device such as a solar cell (14) is disclosed. The device comprises a plurality of macrocyclic ?-conjugated planar molecules stackable through columnar self assembly to form a stack (10) having an axial channel (26) with an outer p-channel (22) of the nano-composite coaxial molecular stack (10). A plurality of C60 molecules are positioned coaxially within the axial channel of the stack (10) to form an inner n-channel (24) that forms a bulk heterojunction with the p-channel (22) to provide charge transport of photocurrent through the nano-composite coaxial molecular stack (10). A plurality of the stacks (16) are oriented orthogonally between first (18) and second electrodes (20) to form the device (14).

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an organic memory device and a method for fabricating the device. The organic memory device may include a first electrode, a second electrode and an organic active layer wherein the organic active layer includes an upper organic material layer formed of an electrically conductive organic material containing heteroatoms and a lower organic material layer formed of an electrically non-conductive organic material containing heteroatoms. Because the organic memory device exhibits improved thermal stability and non-volatility, it may be well suited for use in nonvolatile large-capacity storage units. Flexible electrodes may be used in the organic memory device to fabricate flexible memory devices.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a plurality of regions extending in a predetermined direction on a substrate; and ejecting a liquid material on the plurality of regions to form an electrically conductive film, wherein the electrically conductive film extends in the same direction as the plurality of regions so as to overlap the plurality of regions.

Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT), a method of fabricating the TFT, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device, a method of fabricating the OLED display device, and a donor substrate for laser induced thermal imaging (LITI) includes interconnections formed of a mixed layer of metal nanoparticles and carbon black using a laser induced thermal imaging (LITI) technique.

Abstract: An organic device, including an organic compound having charge-transporting ability (i.e., transporting holes and/or electrons) and/or including organic light emissive molecules capable of emitting at least one of fluorescent light or phosphorescent light, has a charge transfer complex-contained layer including a charge transfer complex formed upon contact of an organic hole-transporting compound and molybdenum trioxide via a manner of lamination or mixing thereof, so that the organic hole-transporting compound is in a state of radical cation (i.e., positively charged species) in the charge transfer complex-contained layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electronic device including a stack of layers including a release layer, the stack having a lateral structure on a substrate, at least one of the layers being an organic material layer. A method includes with the step of providing a stamp with at least one protrusion of the surface area corresponding to the lateral structure. The stack of layers is deposited with a first face on the surface area of the protrusion of the stamp. A second face of the stack that is opposite to the first face is brought into adhesive contact with the substrate. The stamp is released from the stack.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to semiconducting carbon-containing devices and methods of making thereof. The semi-conducting carbon containing devices comprise an n-type semiconducting layer and a p-type semiconducting layer, both of which are positioned over a substrate. The n-type semiconducting layer can be formed by pyrolyzing a carbon- and nitrogen-containing polymer, and the p-type semiconducting layer can be formed by pyrolyzing an aromatic- and aliphatic-group-containing polymer. In some embodiments, the devices are solar cell devices.

Abstract: A photosensitive optoelectronic device having an improved hybrid planar bulk heterojunction includes a plurality of photoconductive materials disposed between the anode and the cathode. The photoconductive materials include a first continuous layer of donor material and a second continuous layer of acceptor material. A first network of donor material or materials extends from the first continuous layer toward the second continuous layer, providing continuous pathways for conduction of holes to the first continuous layer. A second network of acceptor material or materials extends from the second continuous layer toward the first continuous layer, providing continuous pathways for conduction of electrons to the second continuous layer. The first network and the second network are interlaced with each other. At least one other photoconductive material is interspersed between the interlaced networks.

Abstract: Provided are an organic light emitting display device coupled to a photoelectric transistor. The organic light emitting display device includes an anode and a cathode separated from each other, a plurality of organic material layers formed between the anode and the cathode and including an organic light emitting layer, a light source applying an excitation pulse to the organic material layers, and a light receiving unit measuring changes in photoluminescence (PL) signals that are emitted from the organic material layers.

Abstract: An organic photosensitive optoelectronic device, having a donor-acceptor heterojunction of a donor-like material and an acceptor-like material and methods of making such devices is provided. At least one of the donor-like material and the acceptor-like material includes a subphthalocyanine, a subporphyrin, and/or a subporphyrazine compound; and/or the device optionally has at least one of a blocking layer or a charge transport layer, where the blocking layer and/or the charge transport layer includes a subphthalocyanine, a subporphyrin, and/or a subporphyrazine compound.

Abstract: An optoelectronic device and a method for fabricating the optoelectronic device includes a first electrode disposed on a substrate, an exposed surface of the first electrode having a root mean square roughness of at least 30 nm and a height variation of at least 200 nm, the first electrode being transparent. A conformal layer of a first organic semiconductor material is deposited onto the first electrode by organic vapor phase deposition, the first organic semiconductor material being a small molecule material. A layer of a second organic semiconductor material is deposited over the conformal layer. At least some of the layer of the second organic semiconductor material directly contacts the conformal layer. A second electrode is deposited over the layer of the second organic semiconductor material. The first organic semiconductor material is of a donor-type or an acceptor-type relative to the second organic semiconductor material, which is of the other material type.

Abstract: A device is provided having a first electrode, a second electrode, a first photoactive region having a characteristic absorption wavelength ?1 and a second photoactive region having a characteristic absorption wavelength ?2. The photoactive regions are disposed between the first and second electrodes, and further positioned on the same side of a reflective layer, such that the first photoactive region is closer to the reflective layer than the second photoactive region. The materials comprising the photoactive regions may be selected such that ?1 is at least about 10% different from ?2. The device may further comprise an exciton blocking layer disposed adjacent to and in direct contact with the organic acceptor material of each photoactive region, wherein the LUMO of each exciton blocking layer other than that closest to the cathode is not more than about 0.3 eV greater than the LUMO of the acceptor material.

Abstract: An image sensor element is provided according to an embodiment which comprises image sensor element portions sensitive to at least partially different wavelength ranges.

Abstract: Improving memory retention properties of a polymer memory cell are disclosed. The methods include providing a semiconducting polymer layer containing at least one organic semiconductor and at least one of a carrier ion oxidation preventer and an electrode oxidation preventer. The oxidation preventers may contain at least one of 1) an oxygen scavenger, 2) a polymer with oxidizable side-chain groups which can be preferentially oxidized over the carrier ions/electrodes, and 3) an oxidizable molecule that can be preferentially oxidized over the carrier ions/electrodes.

Abstract: A tandem polymer photovoltaic device includes a first bulk hetero-junction polymer semiconductor layer, a second bulk hetero-junction polymer semiconductor layer spaced apart from the first bulk hetero-junction polymer semiconductor layer, and a metal-semiconductor layer between and in contact with the first and second bulk hetero junction polymer semiconductor layers. The first and second bulk hetero-junction polymer semiconductor layers have complementary photon absorption spectra.

Abstract: A photovoltaic device includes a first heterojunction layer having a first donor type organic material and a first acceptor type organic material, in which a concentration of at least one of the first donor type organic material and the first acceptor type organic material is graded continuously from a first side of the first heterojunction layer to a second side of the first heterojunction layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to an organic optoelectronic component comprising a base electrode, a top electrode that is provided with passages and an arrangement of organic layers, which is formed between the base electrode and the top electrode and makes electrical contact with said electrodes. In said component, light can be generated in a light-emitting region by the application of electrical energy to the base electrode and the top electrode. An organic current distribution layer also extends into the region containing the passages, said layer making electrical contact with the top electrode and the light-emitting region.

Abstract: A light emitting display includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer on the substrate, a first insulation layer on the semiconductor layer, a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer on the first insulation layer, the first electrode layer having a first length and the second electrode layer having a second length, the first electrode layer corresponding to a storage capacitor, the second electrode layer corresponding to a boosting capacitor, a second insulation layer on the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, and a third electrode layer on the second insulation layer, wherein a length of a first portion of the third electrode layer that overlaps the first electrode layer is longer than a length of a second portion of the third electrode layer that overlaps the second electrode layer.

Abstract: An organic thin film transistor substrate includes a gate line formed on a substrate, a data line intersecting the gate line and defining a subpixel area, an organic thin film transistor including a gate electrode connected to the gate line, a source electrode connected to the data line, a drain electrode facing the source electrode, and an organic semiconductor layer forming a channel between the source and drain electrodes, a passivation layer parallel with the gate line, for covering the organic semiconductor layer and peripheral regions of the organic semiconductor layer, and a bank insulating layer for determining the position of the organic semiconductor layer and the passivation layer.

Abstract: An organic photosensitive optoelectronic device comprising at least one Donor-Acceptor heterojunction formed from a squaraine compound of formula I: wherein each of Ar1 and Ar2 is independently chosen from an optionally substituted aromatic group. The organic optoelectronic device described herein may also comprise a Donor-Acceptor heterojunction that is formed from at least two different squaraine compounds. A method of making the disclosed device, which may include at least one sublimation step for depositing the squaraine compound, is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides an involatile memory device that is capable of data writing and erasing at a time other than during manufacturing, and a semiconductor device having the memory device. Also, the present invention provides a compact-sized and inexpensive involatile memory device and a semiconductor device having the memory device. A memory device of the present invention includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer of which at least one has a light transmitting property, and an organic compound layer that is in contact with the first conductive layer or the second conductive layer. The organic compound layer includes conductive particles that are dispersed within the layer, and the organic compound included in the organic compound layer has a site that can photoisomerize.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to form an organic transistor including an organic semiconductor having high crystallinity without loosing an interface between an organic semiconductor of a channel where carriers are spread out and a gate insulating layer and deteriorating a yield. A semiconductor device according to the present invention has a stacked structure of organic semiconductor layers, and at least the upper organic semiconductor layer is in a polycrystalline or a single crystalline state and the lower organic semiconductor layer is made of a material serving as a channel. Carrier mobility can be increased owing to the upper organic semiconductor layer having high crystallinity; thus, insufficient contact due to the upper organic semiconductor layer can be compensated by the lower organic semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A technique for high-resolution surface energy assisted patterning of semiconductor active layer islands on top of an array of predefined source-drain electrodes without requiring an additional process step for surface energy patterning.

Abstract: A light-emitting element including a light-emitting layer and a control layer between a first electrode and a second electrode is provided. The control layer includes a first organic compound and a second organic compound. The amount of the included first organic compound is larger than the amount of the included second organic compound. The second organic compound has the property of trapping carriers that have the same polarity as carriers transported by the first organic compound. The concentration and carrier-trapping property of the second organic compound included in the control layer satisfy certain conditions.

Abstract: There is disclosed methods utilizing organic vapor phase deposition for growing bulk organic crystalline layers for organic photosensitive devices, heterojunctions and films made by such methods, and devices using such heterojunctions. There is also disclosed new methods for manufacturing heterojunctions and organic photosensitive devices, and the heterojunctions and devices manufactured thereby.

Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT), a method of fabricating the TFT, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device, a method of fabricating the OLED display device, and a donor substrate for laser induced thermal imaging (LITI) includes interconnections formed of a mixed layer of metal nanoparticles and carbon black using a laser induced thermal imaging (LITI) technique.

Abstract: Disclosed is materials design for prolonging the duration of the low relative dielectric constant of an organic siloxane film having a low relative dielectric constant. Specifically, in an organic siloxane film having a relative dielectric constant of not more than 2.1, the elemental ratio of carbon to silicon in the film is set to not less than 0.10 and not more than 0.55.

Abstract: By introducing new concepts into a structure of a conventional organic semiconductor element and without using a conventional ultra thin film, an organic semiconductor element is provided which is more reliable and has higher yield. Further, efficiency is improved particularly in a photoelectronic device using an organic semiconductor. Between an anode and a cathode, there is provided an organic structure including alternately laminated organic thin film layer (functional organic thin film layer) realizing various functions by making an SCLC flow, and a conductive thin film layer (ohmic conductive thin film layer) imbued with a dark conductivity by doping it with an acceptor and a donor, or by the like method.

Abstract: A photosensitive cell includes an anode and a cathode; a donor-type organic material and an acceptor-type organic material forming a donor-acceptor junction connected between the anode and the cathode; and an exciton blocking layer connected between the acceptor-type organic material of the donor-acceptor junction and the cathode, the blocking layer consisting essentially of a material that has a hole mobility of at least 10?7 cm2/V-sec or higher, where a HOMO of the blocking layer is higher than or equal to a HOMO of the acceptor-type material.

Abstract: An organic photosensitive optoelectronic device having a plurality of cells disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode. Each cell includes a photoconductive organic hole transport layer adjacent to a photoconductive organic electron transport layer. A metal or metal substitute is disposed between each of the cells. At least one exciton blocking layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: An organic photosensitive optoelectronic device having a plurality of cells disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode. Each cell includes a photoconductive organic hole transport layer adjacent to a photoconductive organic electron transport layer. A metal or metal substitute is disposed between each of the cells. At least one exciton blocking layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: An organic photosensitive optoelectronic device optimized to enhance desired characteristics such as external quantum efficiency is described. The photosensitive optoelectronic device has at least two transparent electrodes and one or more organic photoconductive layers disposed between the transparent electrodes. In other embodiments photosensitive optoelectronic devices with multilayer photoconductive structures and photosensitive optoelectronic devices with a reflective layer are disclosed.

Abstract: A pair of electrodes are provided to sandwich an organic semiconductor layer. A lead-out electrode is provided to each of the organic semiconductor layer and the two electrodes constituting the pair of electrodes. Consequently, there is provided an organic semiconductor device having a simple configuration.

Abstract: A method for forming an electronic device on a substrate, the device including a first electrically conductive region, a second electrically conductive region spaced from the first electrically conductive region and a region of an semiconductor material between the first and second electrically conductive regions and in contact with the first electrically conductive region, the method comprising doping an interfacial zone comprising least part of the periphery of the semiconductor material at the interface between the semiconductor material and the first electrically conductive region by means of a dopant contained in the first conductive material and capable of doping the semiconducting material so as to thereby enhance the conductivity of the interfacial zone.

Abstract: Organic photosensitive optoelectronic devices (“OPODs”) are disclosed which include an exciton blocking layer to enhance device efficiency. Single heterostructure, stacked and wave-guide type embodiments are disclosed. Photodetector OPODs having multilayer structures and an exciton blocking layer are also disclosed. Guidelines for selection of exciton blocking layers are provided.