Open-Source Tools for the Fabrication and Characterization of Organic Electronics (dataset)

  • Julian Friedrich Butscher (University of Cologne) (Creator)
  • Seonil Kwon (University of Cologne) (Creator)
  • Anna Popczyk (Creator)
  • Malte Christian Gather (Creator)

Dataset

Description

By promoting collaborative sharing of knowledge, the open-source movement has catalyzed substantial progress across diverse fields, including software development and artificial intelligence. Similarly, the concept of openly shared hardware has gained attention, due to its cost-effectiveness and the prospect of improved reproducibility. A major motivation for the development of organic electronics is its promise to deliver substantial advantages in price and manufacturability relative to its inorganic counterpart. Here, we introduce two open-source tools for organic electronics: a dip-coating device designed for thin film fabrication and a four-point probe for precisely measuring the resistance of thin films. These tools only cost a fraction of comparable commercial devices and run with open-source software to ensure a user-friendly experience. We provide a case study demonstrating the optimization of simple fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) using these open-source tools achieving 4% external quantum efficiency. To characterize these OLEDs, we use our previously reported open-source setup for accurate efficiency measurements and describe a substantial software upgrade to speed up the characterization of electroluminescence. This work contributes open-source hardware and software to the field of organic electronics, thereby lowering the entrance barrier to the field and fostering involvement of scientists with diverse scientific backgrounds.
Date made available6 Aug 2024
PublisherUniversity of St Andrews

Keywords

  • open-source
  • organic electronics
  • OLED

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