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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2020 Oct 28;12(43):48982-48990. doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c14447. Epub 2020 Oct 19.

Realizing Saturable Absorption and Reverse Saturable Absorption in a PEDOT:PSS Film via Electrical Modulation.

ACS applied materials & interfaces

Yanhui Sun, Hui Li, Ruipeng Hou, Mengjuan Diao, Ying Liang, Zhipeng Huang, Mark G Humphrey, Chi Zhang

Affiliations

  1. School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, PR China.
  2. Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.

PMID: 33074650 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c14447

Abstract

Electrical tuning of the nonlinear absorption of materials has promising application potential, while studies remain rare. In this work, we show that the third-order nonlinear absorption of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) chemically doped with poly(styrene sulfonic acid) [PEDOT:PSS] can be effectively modulated by external voltage. The nonlinear absorption of the film can be varied between reverse saturable absorption (RSA) and saturable absorption (SA) via voltage control with laser excitation at 800 nm, and the corresponding nonlinear absorption coefficient can be tuned in the range -1606 ± 73 to 521 ± 9 cm GW

Keywords: PEDOT; conductive polymer; electrical control; nonlinear optical; polaron

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