半导体电路及其元器件是实现现代信息传递的重要组成部分,随着无机电路特别是硅基电路的研究发展进入瓶颈,有机电路及其基本元器件的研究对于电路及系统的未来发展意义更加重大。近十年来,有机电路及其基本元器件取得了飞速的发展,多种基本元件器性能已经达到可应用程度,特别是在显示领域,基于有机半导体制备的OLED显示电路已经成为新一代显示器的选择。同时,有机电路也因其所具有的低成本、可弯折、高透光等特性而具有了更多的发展空间。本综述从构成有机电路的各基本部件出发,以各部分器件在电路系统中的应用为线索,从系统信息采集、信息处理、信息存储和信息输出4个方面简述了各部分基础元件的发展情况,并以基于有机场效应晶体管的器件为基础,对器件的结构、电性能的优化以及所面临的问题进行了讨论。
Semiconductor circuits and their components play very important roles in the modern information society. However, silicon-based inorganic circuit will face the development bottleneck. Organic circuit has been considered as the potential candidate for next generation circuit due to its low cost, high transmittance and wide applications on the flexible substrates. Significant progress has been made on the organic circuits and their basic elements in the past few years. Moreover, some basic elements have already been put into practical applications. For example, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) has been shown as a new choice for the next generation display technique. In this review, we focus on the recent development of the system-level circuits, where the basic elements are classified into four types according to the functional properties, i. e., information collection, information processing, information storage and information output. We summarize the recent important advances in the basic elements of organic circuits such as organic field-effect transistor sensors, the basic logic gates, coding devices, signal conversion devices, flash memories, resistance-type memories, electronic paper, OLEDs, and organic light-emitting transistors. The key progresses of the devices based on the organic field-effect transistors are highlighted, including the the frontier researches, the optimization of electrical properties and main challenges.