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ArticleScience advances2025

Polymeric microwave rectifiers enabled by monolayer-thick ionized donors.

Nobutaka Osakabe, Jeongeun Her, Takahiro Kaneta, Akiko Tajima, Elena Longhi, Kan Tang, Kazuhiro Fujimori, Stephen Barlow, Seth R Marder, Shun Watanabe and 2 more

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Nobutaka OsakabeMaterial Innovation Research Center (MIRC) and Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan.ORCID 0009-0001-3441-5648
Jeongeun HerMaterial Innovation Research Center (MIRC) and Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan.ORCID 0009-0001-1569-555X
Takahiro KanetaMaterial Innovation Research Center (MIRC) and Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan.ORCID 0009-0005-7361-6206
Akiko TajimaMaterial Innovation Research Center (MIRC) and Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan.ORCID 0009-0009-7916-0798
Elena LonghiSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0780-4522
Kan TangRenewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0012-0224
Kazuhiro FujimoriFaculty of Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.ORCID 0009-0002-9046-6535
Stephen BarlowSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9059-9974
Seth R MarderSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6921-2536
Shun WatanabeMaterial Innovation Research Center (MIRC) and Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7377-6043
Jun TakeyaMaterial Innovation Research Center (MIRC) and Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7003-1350
Yu YamashitaMaterial Innovation Research Center (MIRC) and Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7966-3197

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Abstract

Solution processing of polymeric semiconductors provides a facile way to fabricate functional diodes. However, energy barriers at metal-semiconductor interfaces often limit their performance. Here, we report rectifying polymer diodes with markedly modified energy-level alignments. The gold electrode surface was treated with a dimeric metal complex, which resulted in a shallow work function of 3.7 eV by forming a monolayer-thick ionized donor layer. When a polymeric semiconductor was coated on the treated electrode, most of the ionized donors remained at the metal-semiconductor interface. The confined ionized donors with the ideal thickness enabled fabrication of a polymer diode with a forward current density of over 100 A cm

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