Photoelectronic device and image sensor

• US 10,707,432 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2014
• Issued: 07/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Kyung Bae, Kim, Kyu Sik, Lee, Kwang Hee, Leem, Dong-Seok, Lim, Seon-Jeong
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhu, Sheng-Bai
• Application Number:
  US14/186,075
• Publication Number:
  US 20140239278A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,328 Days
• Field of Search: 257 40, 257 79, 257 53, 257 59, 257458, 257436, 438 59, 438 46, 438 29
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 30/81 Electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 30/82 Transparent electrodes, e.g. indium tin oxide [ITO] electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 39/32 Organic image sensors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/549 Organic PV cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 70/50 Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product

Abstract

Disclosed are a photoelectronic device including a first electrode including a first metal; an active layer disposed between the first electrode and a second electrode; and a diffusion barrier layer disposed between the first electrode and the active layer; the diffusion barrier layer including a second metal, wherein the second metal has a thermal diffusivity that is lower than a thermal diffusivity of the first metal, and wherein the first electrode and the diffusion barrier layer are configured to transmit light, and an image sensor including the photoelectronic device.

Claims

1. An organic image sensor, comprising:

an array of photo-sensing devices;

an array of color filters the array of color filters consisting of red color filters and blue color filters; and

a photoelectronic device for converting light into an electrical signal;

wherein the photoelectronic device includes,

a Ag electrode including Ag or a Ag alloy,

an Al metal layer on one side of the Ag electrode and consisting of Al, the Al metal layer being directly in contact with the Ag electrode, the Al metal layer having a thickness of about 0.5 nm to about 3 nm,

an active layer on one side of the Al metal layer such that the active layer and the Ag electrode are not in contact, the active layer including an organic material, the active layer being configured to selectively absorb a light of green wavelength region and generate excitons based on the absorbed light of green wavelength region,

an opposing electrode on one side of the active layer, and

a light transmission auxiliary layer on the other side of the Ag electrode, the light transmission auxiliary layer including tungsten oxide, zinc oxide, indium oxide, tin oxide, aluminum oxide, aluminum tin oxide, fluorine-doped tin oxide, molybdenum oxide, vanadium oxide, rhenium oxide, niobium oxide, tantalum oxide, titanium oxide, nickel oxide, copper oxide, cobalt oxide, manganese oxide, chromium oxide, metal sulfide, or a combination thereof.

2. The organic image sensor of claim 1, wherein the Ag electrode has a thickness of about 1 nm to about 100 nm.

3. The organic image sensor of claim 1, wherein a light transmittance of the photoelectronic device is equal to or greater than 80%.

4. The organic image sensor of claim 1, wherein a dark current of the photoelectronic device is equal to or less than 100 e/s.

5. The photoelectronic device of claim 1, wherein the active layer comprises a p-type semiconductor material and an n-type semiconductor material to form a pn junction.

6. The organic image sensor of claim 1, wherein the active layer comprises at least one of N,N′

-dimethyl-quinacridone (DMQA), diindenoperylene, dibenzo{[f,f]-4,4′

,7,7′

-tetraphenyl}diindeno[1,2,3-cd;

1′

,2′

,3′

-lm]perylene, dicyanovinyl-terthiophene (DCV3T), fullerene, a fullerene derivative, and perylene diimide.

7. The organic image sensor of claim 1, further comprising a through-hole connecting the opposing electrode and a green pixel photo-sensing device of the array of photo-sensing devices.