LAUSR.org creates dashboard-style pages of related content for over 1.5 million academic articles. Sign Up to like articles & get recommendations!

Conjugated Polymers for Microwave Applications: Untethered Sensing Platforms and Multifunctional Devices

Photo by vladizlo from unsplash

In the past two decades, organic electronic materials have enabled and accelerated a large and diverse set of technologies, from energy‐harvesting devices and electromechanical actuators, to flexible and printed (opto)electronic… Click to show full abstract

In the past two decades, organic electronic materials have enabled and accelerated a large and diverse set of technologies, from energy‐harvesting devices and electromechanical actuators, to flexible and printed (opto)electronic circuitry. Among organic (semi)conductors, organic mixed ion–electronic conductors (OMIECs) are now at the center of renewed interest in organic electronics, as they are key drivers of recent developments in the fields of bioelectronics, energy storage, and neuromorphic computing. However, due to the relatively slow switching dynamics of organic electronics, their application in microwave technology, until recently, has been overlooked. Nonetheless, other unique properties of OMIECs, such as their substantial electrochemical tunability, charge‐modulation range, and processability, make this field of use ripe with opportunities. In this work, the use of a series of solution‐processed intrinsic OMIECs is demonstrated to actively tune the properties of metamaterial‐inspired microwave devices, including an untethered bioelectrochemical sensing platform that requires no external power, and a tunable resonating structure with independent amplitude‐ and frequency‐modulation. These devices showcase the considerable potential of OMIEC‐based metadevices in autonomous bioelectronics and reconfigurable microwave optics.

Keywords: polymers microwave; applications untethered; sensing platforms; untethered sensing; conjugated polymers; microwave applications

Journal Title: Advanced Materials
Year Published: 2022

Link to full text (if available)


Share on Social Media:                               Sign Up to like & get
recommendations!

Related content

More Information              News              Social Media              Video              Recommended



                Click one of the above tabs to view related content.