Solid-state electric device
AssigneeThe Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
InventorJoshua Salafsky
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Abstract
A solid state electric device includes templated charge-carrier-transporting channel layer interposed between a pair of conductive substrates. The templated charge-carrier-transporting channel layer includes a layer of a first charge-carrier-transporting material having one or more regions defined using templating techniques, in which a second charge-carrier-transporting material is deposited. The second charge-carrier-transporting material is distributed within the templated charge-carrier-transporting channel layer such that, predominantly, only a single contiguous part of the second charge-carrier-transporting material is interposed between the first conductive substrate and the second conductive substrate along any imaginary normal axis extending between the two conductive substrates.
Claims23
A method for creating a solid-state electric device having a templated charge-carrier-transporting channel layer, comprising the steps of:
- (a) depositing a removable template on at least a portion of a first conductive substrate;
- (b) depositing a layer of a first charge-carrier-transporting material on said removable template;
- (c) removing said template to thereby define one or more regions in said first charge-carrier-transporting material layer;
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- (d) depositing a second charge-carrier-transporting material in at least one of said one or more regions.
A solid-state electric device, comprising:
- a first conductive substrate;
- a templated charge-carrier-transporting channel layer having a first side and a second side, said first side contacting at least a portion of said first conductive substrate;
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- a second conductive substrate contacting at least a portion of said second side of said templated charge-carrier-transporting channel layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.