High performance natural semiconductors for green organic electronics development

Description

Organic electronics has a tremendous potential for the development of electronic products that are non-toxic and environmentally friendly biodegradable. An ideal solution is the production of such devices either from naturally occurring or from nature-inspired materials that have been proved to be biodegradable and/or biocompatible. Such semiconductor materials have been recently implemented in organic photovoltaics and field effect transistors, and afforded performances on par with state-of-the-art synthetic organic materials. Among the materials we have exploited are naturally-occurring Indigo and Tyrian Purple as well as synthetically produced indigoids, anthraquinone derivatives, acridones, to name a few. We have demonstrated fully-biodegradable devices and circuits featuring natural substrates, dielectric and semiconducting layers operating at state of the art performance.

Period	26 Jan 2011
Event title	SPIE Photonics West 2012
Event type	Conference
Location	United StatesShow on map