Shiyi Liu

Contact Resistance Effects in Highly Doped Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Injection at the source contact critically determines the behavior of depletion-type organic electrochemical transistors (OETs). The contact resistance of OETs increases exponentially with the gate voltage and strongly influences the modulation of the drain current by the gate voltage over a wide voltage range. A modified standard model accounting contact resistance can explain the particular shape of the transconductance.

Tuning charge carrier transport and optical birefringence in liquid-crystalline thin films : a new design space for organic light-emitting diodes

Liquid-crystalline organic semiconductors exhibit unique properties that make them highly interesting for organic optoelectronic applications. Their optical and electrical anisotropies and the possibility to control the alignment of the liquid-crystalline semiconductor allow not only to optimize charge carrier transport, but to tune the optical property of organic thin-film devices as well. In this study, the molecular orientation in a liquid-crystalline semiconductor film is tuned by a novel blading process as well as by different annealing protocols. The altered alignment is verified by cross-polarized optical microscopy and spectroscopic ellipsometry. It is shown that a change in alignment of the liquid-crystalline semiconductor improves charge transport in single charge carrier devices profoundly. Comparing the current-voltage characteristics of single charge carrier devices with simulations shows an excellent agreement and from this an in-depth understanding of single charge carrier transport in two-terminal devices is obtained. Finally, p-i-n type organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) compatible with vacuum processing techniques used in state-of-the-art OLEDs are demonstrated employing liquid-crystalline host matrix in the emission layer.

Quantifying charge trapping and molecular doping in organic p-i-n diodes

Organic p-i-n diodes enable the development of highly efficient organic devices such as organic light-emitting diodes. Understanding charge carrier trapping in these diodes is essential to comprehensively describe their electrical behaviors and increase their efficiency further. Here, a new bias stress protocol is developed to study charge trapping and the influence of trapping on molecular doping in organic p-i-n diodes. The results are discussed with the help of a novel analytical model, which is capable of quantifying the density of trapped charges and the doping efficiency from capacitance spectroscopy. We propose that this combined experimental/modeling approach is versatile and can lead to an advanced understanding of trapping in organic electronic devices.