‘Soft’ amplifier circuits based on field-effect ionic transistors

Boon, Niels; Olvera de la Cruz, Monica

doi:10.1039/c5sm00573f

Title: ‘Soft’ amplifier circuits based on field-effect ionic transistors

Journal Article · Wed May 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Soft Matter

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/c5sm00573f· OSTI ID:1385927

Boon, Niels ^[1]; Olvera de la Cruz, Monica ^[1]

Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)

Soft materials can be used as the building blocks for electronic devices with extraordinary properties. We introduce a theoretical model for a field-effect transistor in which ions are the gated species instead of electrons. Our model incorporates readily-available soft materials, such as conductive porous membranes and polymer-electrolytes to represent a device that regulates ion currents and can be integrated as a component in larger circuits. By means of Nernst–Planck numerical simulations as well as an analytical description of the steady-state current we find that the responses of the system to various input voltages can be categorized into ohmic, sub-threshold, and active modes. This is fully analogous to what is known for the electronic field-effect transistor (FET). Pivotal FET properties such as the threshold voltage and the transconductance crucially depend on the half-cell redox potentials of the source and drain electrodes as well as on the polyelectrolyte charge density and the gate material work function. We confirm the analogy with the electronic FETs through numerical simulations of elementary amplifier circuits in which we successfully substitute the electronic transistor by an ionic transistor.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science (CBES)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0000989

OSTI ID:: 1385927

Journal Information:: Soft Matter, Vol. 11, Issue 24; Related Information: CBES partners with Northwestern University (lead); Harvard University; New York University; Pennsylvania State University; University of Michigan; University of Pittsburgh; ISSN 1744-683X

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