Organic/Polymer Photoconducting Mechanism and Image Sensors

The development history of organic/polymer photoconducting image sensors was reviewed briefly; a theoretical comment of scientific researches and main breakthroughs in the field of photoconducting mechanism in the past two decades was evaluated; a series of measurements to improve photoconducting ability and photon/electron conversion efficiency were summarized; a few basic principles for molecular design of novel high performance photoconducting materials and fabrication of prototype photo conducting image sensors were suggested; and the application future of organic/polymer photoconducting image sensors was practically analyzed.