Highly sensitive thin-film organic phototransistors: Effect of wavelength of light source on device performance

Organic phototransistors (OPTs) were fabricated from pentacene and copper phthalocyanine (CuPC) based on the geometry of organic field-effect transistors (OFETs); and the effect of the wavelength of the incident light source on their performance was examined. High performance OFETs with pentacene and CuPC were fabricated and the characteristics of the OPTs were examined under UV and visible-light irradiations with top illumination. The CuPC and pentacene OPTs show a high responsivities of 0.5–2 and 10–50A∕W and maximum IPh∕IDark of 3000 and 1.3×105, respectively, under 365nm UV light. However, under visible light, at a wavelength of 650nm, the pentacene OPTs had 100 times less responsivity, 0.15–0.45A∕W, and a IPh∕IDark of 1000, even though an absorption coefficient three times larger was observed at this wavelength than at 365nm. A strong correlation was found between the performance of the OPTs and the incident photon to current conversion efficiency spectra of an organic semiconductor. The strong depen...

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