Organic thin film transistors (OTFTs)-based biosensors are widely applied as advanced biosensing platforms by virtue of their inherent ability to transfer and amplify received biological signals into electrical signals. Nevertheless, the development OTFTs-based with excellent sensitivity, selectivity, stability for specific processes remains a major challenge. This mini review focuses on recent...

Electronic nano-devices are giving rise to new phenomenological effects, since the high surface to volume ratio associated to their nano-scale volume makes superficial effects to predominate over bulk effects. With the reduction of the size of the devices to the nano-scale, the modeling of some phenomena traditionally treated as statistical effects should be carefully revised. A clear example o...

We describe a general synthesis of conductive gold thin films doped with entrapped organic molecules, and demonstrate, for the first time, the immobilization of a redox couple within an electrode in a single step. The resulting film is of dual properties: conductivity arising from the gold, and redox behavior originating from the entrapped molecule. Faster electron-transfer rates are found for ...

Organic/inorganic interfaces play a crucial role in organic electronic devices such as organic field effect transistors (OFETs), organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic photovoltaics (OPVs). The properties of organic thin-film transistors depend on the transport of charges induced at the semiconductor/gate insulator interface. Structural defects near this interface influence the charg...

1,4,8,11-Methyl-substituted 6,13-triethylsilylethynylpentacene shows extended pi-pi overlap when deposited from solution, yielding organic thin film transistors with high and reproducible hole mobility with negligible hysteresis.

It is now widely accepted that skin sensitivity will be very important for future robots used by humans in daily life for housekeeping and entertainment purposes. Despite this fact, relatively little progress has been made in the field of pressure recognition compared to the areas of sight and voice recognition, mainly because good artificial "electronic skin" with a large area and mechanical f...

Conducting polymers entered the research field in late 70 ́s and efforts aimed at achieving printed electronics started a decade later. This thesis treats printable organic electrochemical transistors (OECT). Some conjugated polymers can be switched between a high conducting and a low conducting state in an electrochemical cell. In this thesis, the work carried out using poly(3,4ethylenedioxythi...

We fabricated sub-wavelength periodic structures by thermal nano-imprinting using our original functionally modified inorganic–organic hybrid materials. The fabricated structures exhibited excellent uniformity and surface smoothness over a large imprinted area. In addition, optical transmittance is more than 90% within visible wavelength regions after heat treatment for 2 h at 300 C. These nano...

Hybrid Nano (e.g. Nanotube and Nanowire) /CMOS circuits combine both the advantages of Nano-devices and CMOS technologies; they have thus become the most promising candidates to relax the intrinsic drawbacks of CMOS circuits beyond Moore’s law. A functional simulation model for an hybrid Nano/CMOS design is presented in this paper. It is based on Optically Gated Carbon NanoTube Field Effect Tra...