Indigo--a natural pigment for high performance ambipolar organic field effect transistors and circuits

Mihai Irimia-Vladu; Eric D Głowacki; Pavel A Troshin; Günther Schwabegger; Lucia Leonat; Diana K Susarova; Olga Krystal; Mujeeb Ullah; Yasin Kanbur; Marius A Bodea; Vladimir F Razumov; Helmut Sitter; Siegfried Bauer; Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

doi:10.1002/adma.201102619

Indigo--a natural pigment for high performance ambipolar organic field effect transistors and circuits

Adv Mater. 2012 Jan 17;24(3):375-80. doi: 10.1002/adma.201102619. Epub 2011 Nov 23.

Authors

Mihai Irimia-Vladu¹, Eric D Głowacki, Pavel A Troshin, Günther Schwabegger, Lucia Leonat, Diana K Susarova, Olga Krystal, Mujeeb Ullah, Yasin Kanbur, Marius A Bodea, Vladimir F Razumov, Helmut Sitter, Siegfried Bauer, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci

Affiliation

¹ Soft Matter Physics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria; Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells, Physical Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria. [email protected].

PMID: 22109816
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201102619

Abstract

Millenniums-old natural dye indigo--a "new" ambipolar organic semiconductor. Indigo shows balanced electron and hole mobilities of 1 × 10(-2) cm(2) V(-1) s(-1) and good stability against degradation in air. Inverters with gains of 105 in the first and 110 in the third quadrant are demonstrated. Fabricated entirely from natural and biodegradable compounds, these devices show the large potential of such materials for green organic electronics.

Keywords: ambipolar semiconductors; biodegradable electronics; natural materials; sustainable electronics.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biological Products / chemistry*
Coloring Agents / chemistry*
Electrochemistry
Indigo Carmine / chemistry*
Semiconductors*
Tin Compounds / chemistry

Substances

Biological Products
Coloring Agents
Tin Compounds
indium tin oxide
Indigo Carmine