Stacked Dual-Wavelength Near-Infrared Organic Photodetectors
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Abstract
Organic near-infrared (NIR) detectors have potential applications in biomedicine, agriculture, and manufacturing industries to identify and quantify materials contactless, in real time and at a low cost. Recently, tunable narrow-band NIR sensors based on charge-transfer state absorption of bulk-heterojunctions embedded into Fabry-Pérot micro-cavities have been demonstrated. In this work, this type of sensor is further miniaturized by stacking two sub-cavities on top of each other. The resulting three-terminal device detects and distinguishes photons at two specific wavelengths. By varying the thickness of each sub-cavity, the detection ranges of the two sub-sensors are tuned independently between 790 and 1180, and 1020 and 1435 nm, respectively, with full-width-at-half-maxima ranging between 35 and 61 nm. Transfer matrix modeling is employed to select and optimize device architectures with a suppressed cross-talk in the coupled resonator system formed by the sub-cavities, and thus to allow for two distinct resonances. These stacked photodetectors pave the way for highly integrated, bi-signal spectroscopy tunable over a broad NIR range. To demonstrate the application potential, the stacked dual sensor is used to determine the ethanol concentration in a water solution.
Details
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2001784 |
Journal | Advanced optical materials |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 6 |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2021 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
Scopus | 85098104204 |
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Keywords
Keywords
- cavities, dual wavelength, micro‐, near infrared, organic photodetectors, tunable spectra, micro-cavities