Novel methods of organic electrochemical device nanofabrication and characterization
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Recent advances in the development of organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs) have paved the way for novel applications that harness these materials' ability to effectively transduce ionic fluxes into electronic signals, such as in the fields of biosensors and neural interfaces. With the modulation taking place throughout the bulk of the material, such organic electrochemical devices offer a volumetric advantage over their inorganic counterparts, with high-transconductance operation feasible even at low operating voltages. This unique mode of operation may be exploited by a wide variety of applications, some yet unexplored. However, while some classes of organic semiconductors have seen tremendous success in market realization, such as the multi-billion-dollar OLED industry, integration of OMIEC semiconducting polymers systems into traditional fabrication processes remains a difficult technological challenge. In this work, I lay out novel strategies to allow for the nanofabrication of previously unattainable organic electrochemical devices, as well as the characterization thereof. The first part of this dissertation provides an introductory background to both organic electrochemical materials and devices, as well as nanofabrication, with a third chapter discussing the work done to bridge the gap between the two. In the second part, I turn to focus on specific applications of nanofabricated organic electrochemical devices, first exploring the properties of an organic electrochemical transistor (OECT) comprised of a lithographically patterned semiconducting polymer and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The remainder of the dissertation focuses on utilizing OMIEC materials for acceleration of artificial neural networks, discussing the characterization and fabrication strategies developed for realizing submicron-scale, MHz addressable, fully encapsulated organic ECRAM devices.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Tuchman, Mark Yaakov |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Salleo, Alberto |
| Thesis advisor | Salleo, Alberto |
| Thesis advisor | Brongersma, Mark L |
| Thesis advisor | Hong, Guosong |
| Degree committee member | Brongersma, Mark L |
| Degree committee member | Hong, Guosong |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Materials Science & Engineering |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Yaakov Tuchman. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Mark Yaakov Tuchman
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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