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Organic semiconductors for artificial vision

2013; Royal Society of Chemistry; Volume: 1; Issue: 31 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1039/c3tb20213e

2050-7518

Nicola Martino, Diego Ghezzi, F. Benfenati, Guglielmo Lanzani, Maria Rosa Antognazza,

Conducting polymers and applications

Organic semiconductors have emerged in the past two decades as promising materials for many technological applications. Thanks to their unique optoelectronic properties, they represent an ideal system to mimic natural photoreceptor functioning. This similarity has been exploited, on one hand, to realize organic-based devices for image detection, taking advantage of typical features of natural visual systems, such as trichromatic sensing; on the other hand, these materials can be interfaced with biological tissues for cell photo-stimulation, with the main goal of restoring light sensitivity in the case of retinas affected by photoreceptor degeneration.