Organic Semiconductor Sensor Devices

Call for Papers

The special issue announced in the Journal of Sensors aims towards the presentation of original contributions on the field of “organic semiconductor sensor devices”.

Organic semiconductor materials as the active element in electronic devices such as solar cells, sensors, Schottky diodes, light emitting diode, and thin film transistors have been broadly investigated due to their interesting electrical and optical properties. The most important advantage of organic semiconductor materials is easily used in production possibility, cost and device fabrication. The principle of organic semiconductor sensors is the change of their conductivity when exposed to various external effects such as light, gas, vapors. Organic sensor cells have been fabricated in an array in an organic thin-film layer, and electrical contacts are formed on the organic semiconductor film. The performance of such optical and gas sensors as a perceptive (response time, sensitivities, etc.) depends upon the properties of sensor materials rather than transducers. Therefore, the determination of physical properties of the materials to be used and transducers is of vital importance in the sensor applications.

The majority of current work on organic sensors has been focused on their fabrication, characterization, electrical, optical properties of the sensor materials, and device performance.

For this special issue, original research papers are welcome (but are not limited to):

  • Sensor organic materials
  • Organic gas sensors
  • Organic photodiode sensors
  • Optoelectronic sensors
  • Biosensors
  • Chemical sensors
  • Thin-film transistor sensors
  • Nanosensors
  • Sensors
  • Processing methods and applications

Authors should follow the Journal of Sensors manuscript format described at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/js/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript DueAugust 1, 2008
First Round of ReviewsNovember 1, 2008
Publication DateFebruary 1, 2009

Guest Editors

  • Fahrettin Yakuphanoglu, Department of Physics, Fırat University, 23119 Elazığ, Turkey
  • Mehmet Kandaz, Department of Chemistry, Sakarya University, 54140 Esentepe, Sakarya, Turkey
  • Yasemin Çağlar, Department of Physics, Anadolu University, 26470 Eskişehir, Turkey
  • Manuel Muñoz, Laboratorio de Física de Sistemas Pequeños y Nanotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Serrano 144, 28006 Madrid, Spain