A new
dioxasilepine and aryldiamine hybrid material DPSi-DBDTA is designed to act as the electron-blocking layer (EBL) for vacuum-processed
organic photodetector (OPD). The O–Si–O-linked cyclic
structure leads DPSi-DBDTA to have dipolar character,
high LUMO, and good thermal and morphology stability suitable for
vacuum deposition. An initial trial with C60-based single
active layer OPD device manifests the superior capability of DPSi-DBDTA for dark current suppression compared to the typical
aryldiamines. Here, the bare and MoO3-doped DPSi-DBDTA is further examined as EBLs for the visible light responsive OPD
comprising DTDCPB/C70 bulk heterojunction
(BHJ) as the active layer. In sync with the result of C60-based OPD, the low dark current density and high specific detectivity D* (7.085 × 1012 cm Hz1/2 W–1) are achieved. The device with 5% MoO3-doped EBL can exhibit a wide linear dynamic range (LDR) up to 154.166
dB, which is attributed to suppression of both dark current density
and carrier recombination. Additionally, the devices also manifest
fast time-resolved performance in both frequency and transient response
measurements. Especially for the device with 20% MoO3-doped
EBL, a wide cutoff frequency response 692.047 kHz and record-high
transient response demonstrating ≤0.683 μs for transient
photovoltage (TPV) and ≤0.478 μs for transient photocurrent
(TPC) have been realized, which is possibly owing to the balance of
mobility that mitigates the damage from traps. Such submicrosecond
response is comparable with the state-of-the-art perovskite-PDs and
Si-PDs.