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Conductivity in organic semiconductors hybridized with the vacuum field

Orgiu, E.
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George, J.
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Hutchison, J. A.
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2015
Nature Materials

Much effort over the past decades has been focused on improving carrier mobility in organic thin-film transistors by optimizing the organization of the material or the device architecture. Here we take a different path to solving this problem, by injecting carriers into states that are hybridized to the vacuum electromagnetic field. To test this idea, organic semiconductors were strongly coupled to plasmonic modes to form coherent states that can extend over as many as 105 molecules and should thereby favour conductivity. Experiments show that indeed the current does increase by an order of magnitude at resonance in the coupled state, reflecting mostly a change in field-effect mobility. A theoretical quantum model confirms the delocalization of thewavefunctions of the hybridized states and its effect on the conductivity. Our findings illustrate the potential of engineering the vacuum electromagnetic environment to modify and to improve properties of materials.

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DOI
10.1038/Nmat4392
Web of Science ID

WOS:000363471900020

Author(s)
Orgiu, E.
George, J.
Hutchison, J. A.
Devaux, E.
Dayen, J. F.
Doudin, B.
Stellacci, F.  
Genet, C.
Schachenmayer, J.
Genes, C.
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Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Published in
Nature Materials
Volume

14

Issue

11

Start page

1123

End page

1129

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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December 2, 2015
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