The transistor was created in 1947 at Bell Laboratories by Brattain, Bardeen, and Shockley, ushering in the age of microelectronics and revolutionizing the way of life. Initially, so-called bipolar transistors, in which both positive and negative charge carriers contributed to the current transport. Unipolar field-effect transistors were only subsequently introduced. Data processing has been greatly enhanced by the rising performance brought on by the scaling of silicon circuits in the nanoscale range. This extremely inflexible technology is less suited for new sorts of flexible electronic components, like rollable TV displays or medical applications.
Organic transistors, often known as carbon-based semiconductors, have recently gained attention for these applications. Although organic field-effect transistors were first developed in 1986, their performance still lags far behind silicon components.
A research team has made history by successfully demonstrating a very effective organic bipolar transistor. The utilization of highly organized thin organic layers was essential for this. The innovation is highly relevant for the Bipolar Transistors Market as, for the first time, the components of this new technology have reached working frequencies in the gigahertz region. Thus, making it significantly quicker than earlier organic transistors (i.e., more than a billion switching operations per second).
Since researchers had to make layers of exceptionally high quality and unique architectures, the first realisation of the organic bipolar transistor was a significant challenge. However, these efforts are rewarded by the component's superb specifications.
The team added that they've been thinking about this technology for the past 20 years. So, they are extremely glad to finally showcase it using the brand-new, highly ordered layers. Since they enable difficult jobs in data processing and transmission, the organic bipolar transistor and its potential open up new prospects for organic electronics. Future applications such as intelligent patches with built-in sensors that process the data locally and wirelessly connect with the outside are conceivable.