A sensor device for detecting a target species in an aqueous media and/or measuring the concentration of a target species in an aqueous media, the sensor device comprising: (a) an active semiconductor comprising an organic semiconductor material that exhibit substantially the same transfer curve for a period of at least 24 hours when first exposed to air; and (b) a structure for directing an aqueous media into contact with the sensor device.

Provided are devices and methods to detect the presence of volatile organic compounds related to the presence of a disease state in a biological sample. The devices may include a detection moiety such as a polynucleotide in electronic communication with a semiconductor such as graphene or a carbon nanotube.

A conformal organic field-effect transistor includes an elastic substrate, a gate electrode, a polymer insulating layer, an organic semiconductor layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode from the bottom up, the source electrode and the drain electrode being embedded in the organic semiconductor layer. A method of forming the conformal organic field-effect transistor includes depositing an organic semiconductor on a substrate surface to form an organic semiconductor layer, the source electrode and the drain electrode are embedded in the organic semiconductor layer; then preparing the polymer insulating layer on a surface of the organic semiconductor layer; transferring the gate electrode from the substrate; forming hydroxyl groups on a metal electrode surface of the gate electrode, a polymer insulating layer surface of the source electrode, and a polymer insulating layer surface of the drain electrode, respectively; and then performing alignment and heating to obtain the conformal organic field-effect transistor.

Proposed are an organic electrochemical transistor device and a manufacturing method for same, the organic electrochemical transistor device comprising: a substrate; a source electrode and a drain electrode, formed on an upper surface of the substrate; and a poly(hydroxymethyl-EDOT) polymer active layer formed on the upper surface of the substrate and electrically in contact with the source electrode and the drain electrode. According to the embodiment, an organic electrochemical transistor device with high sensitivity characteristics and desirable aqueous solution stability and mechanical stability can be provided.

The present exemplary embodiments provide a sensor of monitoring a biosignal in a low power mode or a high precision mode by interacting a plurality of photo transistors implemented by light absorption layers having different organic orientations by a solution process and a manufacturing method thereof.

Disclosed is a polymer including a first structural unit including a first electron accepting moiety and a first electron donating moiety, a second structural unit including a second electron accepting moiety and a second electron donating moiety. The second electron accepting moiety is different from the first electron accepting moiety. The second electron donating moiety is the same as or different from the first electron donating moiety. The first structural unit is represented by Chemical Formula 1. Chemical Formula 1 is described in the detailed description.

A memory device according to an embodiment includes a fluid layer extending in a first direction, a particle in the fluid layer, a first control electrode made of a first material, a first insulating film provided between the fluid layer and the first control electrode, a second control electrode made of a second material and provided to be spaced apart from the first control electrode in the first direction, a second insulating film provided between the fluid layer and the second control electrode, a third control electrode made of a third material different from the first material and the second material and provided between the first control electrode and the second control electrode, and a third insulating film provided between the fluid layer and the third control electrode.

A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer overlapped with the gate electrode, a gate insulating layer between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a plurality of holes. The gate insulating layer may include a plurality of recess portions at a surface of the gate insulating layer facing the semiconductor layer. A method of manufacturing the thin film transistor is provided. A thin film transistor array panel and an electronic device may include the thin film transistor.

An object of the present invention is to provide a n-type semiconductor element having improved n-type semiconductor characteristics and excellent stability, where the n-type semiconductor element includes a second insulating layer, where the second insulating layer contains: A. (a) a compound having one carbon-carbon double bond or one conjugated system bound to at least one group represented by general formula (1) and at least one group represented by general formula (2); and (b) a polymer; or B. a polymer having, in its molecular structure, the remaining group after removing some hydrogen atoms from R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, or R.sup.4 in the compound (a), or the remaining group after removing some hydrogen atoms from the carbon-carbon double bond or the conjugated system in the compound (a).

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The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting compounds containing a π-extended ω-disubstituted dicyanomethylene quinoid structure, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to compositions, polymer blends and formulations containing them, to the use of the compounds, compositions and polymer blends as organic semiconductors in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, perovskite-based solar cell (PSC) devices, organic photodetectors (OPD), organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED), and to OE, OPV, PSC, OPD, OFET and OLED devices comprising these compounds, compositions or polymer blends.