Photocontrolled organic field effect transistors based on the fullerene C60 and spiropyran hybrid molecule

A R Tuktarov; R B Salikhov; A A Khuzin; N R Popod'ko; I N Safargalin; I N Mullagaliev; U M Dzhemilev

doi:10.1039/c9ra00939f

Photocontrolled organic field effect transistors based on the fullerene C₆₀ and spiropyran hybrid molecule

RSC Adv. 2019 Mar 8;9(13):7505-7508. doi: 10.1039/c9ra00939f. eCollection 2019 Mar 1.

Authors

A R Tuktarov¹, R B Salikhov², A A Khuzin¹, N R Popod'ko¹, I N Safargalin², I N Mullagaliev², U M Dzhemilev¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Petrochemistry and Catalysis, Russian Academy of Sciences Russian Federation tuktarovar@gmail.com.
² Department of Infocommunication Technologies and Nanoelectronics, Bashkir State University Russian Federation.

Abstract

Photocontrolled organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) containing a hybrid compound of fullerene C₆₀ (n-semiconductor) with spiropyran (electrical conductivity photocontroller) as the active layer were fabricated for the first time. It was found that an OFET based on the hybrid compound, unlike the multilayer transistor (a device based on unmodified fullerene C₆₀ and spiropyran in different layers), has higher transfer characteristics (source-to-drain current), charge carrier mobility in the active layer, and response rate to external influence, which makes them promising materials for the manufacture of optical memory elements.