Panchromatic organic photodetectors with SubPc as a non-fullerene acceptor

Panchromatic organic photodetectors are demonstrated with a lead phthalocyanine (PbPc)/boron subphthalocyanine (SubPc) planar heterojunction, where PbPc and SubPc acted as the donor and non-fullerene acceptor, respectively. Primary absorption bands of PbPc locate in ultraviolet (UV) and near-infrared (NIR) regions, while it is visible region for SubPc. As a result, the optimized device shows a wide response covered the wavelengths from UV to NIR with an external quantum efficiency of 10.9% at about 590 nm, which is attributed to the simultaneous dissociation of the photogenerated excitons in both PbPc and SubPc. Besides, the device also exhibits a detectivity higher than 10(10) Jones in the wavelength ranged from 350 to 950 nm.