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Highly Responsive and Thermally Reliable Near‐Infrared Organic Photodiodes Utilizing Naphthalocyanine Molecules Tuned with Axial Ligands
Author(s) -
Leem DongSeok,
Lee KwangHee,
Li Ning,
Park Bum Woo,
Choi Taejin,
Ro Takkyun,
Kwon Oh Kyu,
Kwon YoungNam,
Ng Tse Nga,
Kim Sunghan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
advanced optical materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 91
ISSN - 2195-1071
DOI - 10.1002/adom.202001682
Subject(s) - photodiode , materials science , sinc function , optoelectronics , photodetector , near infrared spectroscopy , detector , quantum efficiency , specific detectivity , dark current , optics , physics , computer vision , computer science
Achieving high‐performance near‐infrared (NIR) photodiodes is in great demand for potential applications like biometrics, security, artificial vision, biomedical imaging, etc. Herein, silicon naphthalocyanine (SiNc) small molecule‐based NIR photodiodes with narrowband absorption are presented. The optimized photodiode by varying the axial ligand in the SiNc molecules exhibits a high external quantum efficiency of 76.6% at 795 nm with narrow full width at half maximum of 80 nm, a very low dark current of 1.07 nA cm −2 at a reverse bias of −3 V, and the resultant detectivity of 5.66 × 10 12 Jones. Further increase of the detectivity up to 10 13 Jones is obtained by modulating the applied bias to −1 V, which is among the highest values of organic NIR detectors reported to date. The SiNc‐based photodiodes are further characterized by temporal response, linear dynamic range, etc., and shown to be stable in high humidity for over a month and in a remarkably wide temperature range (−55 to 125 °C). It is highly likely that the developed SiNc‐based photodiodes can be applicable to a wide variety of NIR sensor platforms.