Multiband Photoresponding Field?Effect Transistor Memory Using Conjugated Block Copolymers with Pendent Isoindigo Coils as a Polymer Electret (Adv. Electron. Mater. 12/2021)

Supramolecular Conjugated Block Copolymers

While the performance of polymer−polymer bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaics (OPVs) is poor compared with polymer−fullerene OPVs, reducing or eliminating micrometer-scale phase separation in all-polymer OPVs may dramatically improve performance. Herein, we demonstrate that 2-ureido-4[1H]-pyrimidinone (UPy) quadruple hydrogen bonding interactions can be used to prevent micrometer-scale pha...

The synthesis and purification of amphiphilic conjugated donoracceptor block copolymers

Nanoscale domains of donor and acceptor materials are crucial for charge generation in organic photovoltaic devices. These domains are difficult to achieve reproducibly in blended materials, but could be engineered into single-material active layers composed of donor–acceptor block copolymers (BCPs). In this work, we report the synthesis and purification of two novel fully conjugated BCPs, P3HT...

An Electret-based Pressure Sensitive Mos Transistor

The operation of the Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) is based on the fact that the lateral conductivity of silicon at the silicon dioxide-silicon interface strongly depends on the transverse electric field in the oxide. Adding a small air-filled spacer between metal gate and oxide, and applying a voltage across the insulator on top of the silicon, the lateral conducti...

Nano-Devices Using Block-Copolymers

Pattern transfer using block copolymers.

To meet the increasing demand for patterning smaller feature sizes, a lithography technique is required with the ability to pattern sub-20 nm features. While top-down photolithography is approaching its limit in the continued drive to meet Moore's law, the use of directed self-assembly (DSA) of block copolymers (BCPs) offers a promising route to meet this challenge in achieving nanometre featur...