Organic rectifier, circuit, rfid tag and use of an organic rectifier

• US 20030178620A1
• Filed: 03/11/2003
• Published: 09/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG (Leonhard KURZ Stiftung & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG (Leonhard KURZ Stiftung & Company KG)
• Inventors: Fix, Walter, Lorenz, Markus, Clemens, wolfgang, Rost, Henning, Bernds, Adolf
• Application Number:
  US10/380,113
• Publication Number:
  US 20030178620A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 257/40
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 10/23 Schottky diodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 10/26 Diodes comprising organic-organic junctions
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 19/00 Integrated devices, or assemblies of multiple devices, comprising at least one organic element specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching, covered by group H10K10/00
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/111 comprising aromatic, heteroaromatic, or aryl chains, e.g. polyaniline, polyphenylene or polyphenylene vinylene
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/113 Heteroaromatic compounds comprising sulfur or selene, e.g. polythiophene
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/1135 Polyethylene dioxythiophene [PEDOT]; Derivatives thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/115 Polyfluorene; Derivatives thereof

Abstract

The invention relates to an organic rectifier, for example, one via which the power supply of an organic integrated switching circuit (plastic integrated circuit) occurs. The organic rectifier is characterized by comprising organic conductive and/or semiconductive material.

Claims

1. Rectifier based on at least one organic diode and incorporating at least one conductive and one semiconducting layer, at least one of the conductive layers being essentially made of organic material.

2. Rectifier according to claim 1, wherein the semiconducting layer is essentially made of organic material.

3. Rectifier according to one of the preceding claims, wherein one conducting layer is made of metal.

4. Rectifier according to one of the preceding claims, wherein one semiconducting layer is essentially made of soluble polymer.

5. Rectifier according to one of the preceding claims and having a switching frequency in the megahertz range.

6. Rectifier according to one of the preceding claims and having a thick intermediate layer.

7. Circuit with a rectifier according to one of claims 1 to 6 and incorporating a capacitor.

8. Circuit according to claim 7 incorporating a rectifier bridge with charging capacitor and/or load resistor.

9. Use of a rectifier and/or circuit according to one of the preceding claims in electronics and/or microelectronics, such as in conjunction with an organic field effect transistor, a sensor, a display and/or a radio frequency identification tag.