Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Spatially nanoconfined N-type polymer semiconductors for stretchable ultrasensitive X-ray detection

  • Yangshuang Bian,
  • Kai Liu,
  • Yang Ran,
  • Yi Li,
  • Yuanhong Gao,
  • Zhiyuan Zhao,
  • Mingchao Shao,
  • Yanwei Liu,
  • Junhua Kuang,
  • Zhiheng Zhu,
  • Mingcong Qin,
  • Zhichao Pan,
  • Mingliang Zhu,
  • Chenyu Wang,
  • Hu Chen,
  • Jia Li,
  • Xifeng Li,
  • Yunqi Liu,
  • Yunlong Guo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34968-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Wearable and skin-like X-ray detectors need intrinsic flexibility and high sensitivity. Here Guo et al. develop a stretchable n-type polymer semiconductor with aligned nanofiber networks which achieve photosensitivity of 1.52×10^4 μC Gyair^-1 cm^−2 and low detection limit of 37.7 nGyair s^-1.