IONICALLY RECONFIGURABLE ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC AND PHOTONIC DEVICES WITH TUNABLE COMMON ELECTRODE

摘要

The present invention is directed to a novel type of monolithic hybrid technology. The invention is directed to photonic devices with a minimum of three (3) electrodes and by an inventive process for incorporating mobile ions into organic components of high performance organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, organic photodetectors and other hybrid photonic devices (such as tandems of OPV), through a novel unique device architecture of a hybrid “Ionic-NT-OPV” structure, in which the ionic components are separated from the OPV by a common nanoporous charge collecting electrode (symbolically depicted as a nanotube: NT), permeable to ions of ionic component inside an inter-connected microchamber.

主权项

1. A multi-junction hybrid device, wherein the device combines an ionic component and a solid organic component and comprises a first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode, wherein the first electrode is attached to an organic component of the hybrid device for collecting electronic charge carriers of one type, wherein the second electrode is a common electrode for both the organic and ionic components of the hybrid device, and is highly permeable to ions and possesses electronic conductivity, and wherein the third electrode plays a role of a gate electrode for tuning the properties of the second electrode and organic material adjacent to the second electrode by ionic EDLC.