Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Organic field-effect optical waveguides

  • Guangyao Zhao,
  • Huanli Dong,
  • Qing Liao,
  • Jun Jiang,
  • Yi Luo,
  • Hongbing Fu,
  • Wenping Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07269-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Despite recent advances in organic optoelectronics development, integration of electronics and photonics in a chip remains a challenge. Here, the authors demonstrate organic field-effect optical waveguides that control propagating photons by the electric field produced in an organic transistor.