1. High‐Gain Chemically Gated Organic Electrochemical Transistor.
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Tan, Siew Ting Melissa, Giovannitti, Alexander, Melianas, Armantas, Moser, Maximilian, Cotts, Benjamin L., Singh, Devan, McCulloch, Iain, and Salleo, Alberto
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CHEMICAL amplification ,AQUEOUS electrolytes ,CHEMICAL reactions ,CHARGE transfer ,METAL semiconductor field-effect transistors ,MAGNITUDE (Mathematics) ,TRANSISTORS - Abstract
Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have exhibited promising performance as transducers and amplifiers of low potentials due to their exceptional transconductance, enabled by the volumetric charging of organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs) employed as the channel material. OECT performance in aqueous electrolytes as well as the OMIECs' redox activity has spurred a myriad of studies employing OECTs as chemical transducers. However, the OECT's large (potentiometrically derived) transconductance is not fully leveraged in common approaches that directly conduct chemical reactions amperometrically within the OECT electrolyte with direct charge transfer between the analyte and the OMIEC, which results in sub‐unity transduction of gate to drain current. Hence, amperometric OECTs do not truly display current gains in the traditional sense, falling short of the expected transistor performance. This study demonstrates an alternative device architecture that separates chemical transduction and amplification processes on two different electrochemical cells. This approach fully utilizes the OECT's large transconductance to achieve current gains of 103 and current modulations of four orders of magnitude. This transduction mechanism represents a general approach enabling high‐gain chemical OECT transducers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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