Improvements in Photoconductive Characteristics of Organic Device Using Silole Derivative

摘要

Poly[9,9-dioctylfluorenyl-2,7-diyl]-co-1,4-benzo-(2,1,3)-thiadiazole (F8BT) is one of the suitable materials for color-selective organic photo-conductive devices owing to its high carrier mobility and absorption coefficient against only the blue light. We investigated a mixing method using a silole derivative, 1,1-dimethyl-2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsilole (DMTPS), in F8BT to improve the ratio between photocurrent and dark current (ON/OFF ratio), which is an important parameter for practical organic photoconductive devices. These organic materials can be coated by a solution process, which leads us to realize a low fabrication cost and a large device area in the future. By adding DMTPS into F8BT, the maximum improvement in ON/OFF ratio of 5 times was achieved compared with the reference device with F8BT only; however, the external quantum efficiency was independent of the concentration of DMTPS less than 50 wt %. In addition, the wavelength selectivity of DMTPS:F8BT in the visible wavelength region was almost the same as that of F8BT only. This result indicates that the DMTPS: F8BT layer can absorb only the blue light, indicating the possibility of a color separation without a prism for high-resolution cameras by combining the green- and red-sensitive devices.