IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society (Jan 2022)

Low-Temperature Solution-Processed All Organic Integration for Large-Area and Flexible High-Resolution Imaging

  • Xiao Hou,
  • Sujie Chen,
  • Wei Tang,
  • Jianghu Liang,
  • Bang Ouyang,
  • Ming Li,
  • Yawen Song,
  • Tong Shan,
  • Chun-Chao Chen,
  • Patrick Too,
  • Xiaoqing Wei,
  • Libo Jin,
  • Gang Qi,
  • Xiaojun Guo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/JEDS.2022.3142769
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10
pp. 821 – 826

Abstract

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A facile blade-coating process is developed for large area deposition of uniform thick organic active layers in organic photodiodes (OPDs). Large-area semi-transparent top metal electrodes are thermally evaporated with an optimal deposition rate to achieve good balance between transparency and conductivity for top illumination integration structure with the organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) backplane. The maximum process temperature of the OPD is 85 °C, so that the performance of the OTFT underneath is not affected. Based on the developed integration structure and processes, an all-organic integrated flexible active-matrix imager is developed, having the largest size (130 mm ${\times } 130$ mm), highest resolution ( $1536 {\times } 1536$ pixels, 300 ppi) and lowest process temperature (100 °C) reported so far for the OPD based imagers.

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