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Plasmon-Assisted Direction- and Polarization-Sensitive Organic Thin-Film Detector
Utilizing Bragg surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on metal nanostructures for the use in optical devices has been intensively investigated in recent years. Here, we demonstrate the integration of nanostructured metal electrodes into an ITO-free thin film bulk heterojunction organic solar cell, by di...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7559313/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32957705 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano10091866 |
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author | Haslinger, Michael J. Sivun, Dmitry Pöhl, Hannes Munkhbat, Battulga Mühlberger, Michael Klar, Thomas A. Scharber, Markus C. Hrelescu, Calin |
author_facet | Haslinger, Michael J. Sivun, Dmitry Pöhl, Hannes Munkhbat, Battulga Mühlberger, Michael Klar, Thomas A. Scharber, Markus C. Hrelescu, Calin |
author_sort | Haslinger, Michael J. |
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description | Utilizing Bragg surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on metal nanostructures for the use in optical devices has been intensively investigated in recent years. Here, we demonstrate the integration of nanostructured metal electrodes into an ITO-free thin film bulk heterojunction organic solar cell, by direct fabrication on a nanoimprinted substrate. The nanostructured device shows interesting optical and electrical behavior, depending on angle and polarization of incidence and the side of excitation. Remarkably, for incidence through the top electrode, a dependency on linear polarization and angle of incidence can be observed. We show that these peculiar characteristics can be attributed to the excitation of dispersive and non-dispersive Bragg SPPs on the metal–dielectric interface on the top electrode and compare it with incidence through the bottom electrode. Furthermore, the optical and electrical response can be controlled by the organic photoactive material, the nanostructures, the materials used for the electrodes and the epoxy encapsulation. Our device can be used as a detector, which generates a direct electrical readout and therefore enables the measuring of the angle of incidence of up to 60° or the linear polarization state of light, in a spectral region, which is determined by the active material. Our results could furthermore lead to novel organic Bragg SPP-based sensor for a number of applications. |
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spelling | pubmed-75593132020-10-29 Plasmon-Assisted Direction- and Polarization-Sensitive Organic Thin-Film Detector Haslinger, Michael J. Sivun, Dmitry Pöhl, Hannes Munkhbat, Battulga Mühlberger, Michael Klar, Thomas A. Scharber, Markus C. Hrelescu, Calin Nanomaterials (Basel) Article Utilizing Bragg surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on metal nanostructures for the use in optical devices has been intensively investigated in recent years. Here, we demonstrate the integration of nanostructured metal electrodes into an ITO-free thin film bulk heterojunction organic solar cell, by direct fabrication on a nanoimprinted substrate. The nanostructured device shows interesting optical and electrical behavior, depending on angle and polarization of incidence and the side of excitation. Remarkably, for incidence through the top electrode, a dependency on linear polarization and angle of incidence can be observed. We show that these peculiar characteristics can be attributed to the excitation of dispersive and non-dispersive Bragg SPPs on the metal–dielectric interface on the top electrode and compare it with incidence through the bottom electrode. Furthermore, the optical and electrical response can be controlled by the organic photoactive material, the nanostructures, the materials used for the electrodes and the epoxy encapsulation. Our device can be used as a detector, which generates a direct electrical readout and therefore enables the measuring of the angle of incidence of up to 60° or the linear polarization state of light, in a spectral region, which is determined by the active material. Our results could furthermore lead to novel organic Bragg SPP-based sensor for a number of applications. MDPI 2020-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7559313/ /pubmed/32957705 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano10091866 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Haslinger, Michael J. Sivun, Dmitry Pöhl, Hannes Munkhbat, Battulga Mühlberger, Michael Klar, Thomas A. Scharber, Markus C. Hrelescu, Calin Plasmon-Assisted Direction- and Polarization-Sensitive Organic Thin-Film Detector |
title | Plasmon-Assisted Direction- and Polarization-Sensitive Organic Thin-Film Detector |
title_full | Plasmon-Assisted Direction- and Polarization-Sensitive Organic Thin-Film Detector |
title_fullStr | Plasmon-Assisted Direction- and Polarization-Sensitive Organic Thin-Film Detector |
title_full_unstemmed | Plasmon-Assisted Direction- and Polarization-Sensitive Organic Thin-Film Detector |
title_short | Plasmon-Assisted Direction- and Polarization-Sensitive Organic Thin-Film Detector |
title_sort | plasmon-assisted direction- and polarization-sensitive organic thin-film detector |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7559313/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32957705 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano10091866 |
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