MUMBAI, India, Oct. 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202417002412 A) filed by Toyobo Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan, on Jan. 12, for 'organic photodetector, and organic semiconductor compound used for same.'

Inventor(s) include Toyama, Taichi; Imanishi, Yoshiki; Tanaka, Hikaru; and Hagiya, Kazutake.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 25, under issue no. 43/2024.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide an organic photodetector that realizes high conversion efficiency. The organic photodetector has a structure in which a base, a cathode, an active layer, and an anode are arranged in this order, the organic photodetector characterized in that a polymer compound having a benzobisthiazole structural unit represented by formula (1) is contained in the active layer. [In formula (1), T1 and T2 each independently represent a thiophene ring which may be substituted with an alkoxy group, a thioalkoxy group, a hydrocarbon group, or an organosilyl group, a thiazole ring which may be substituted with a hydrocarbon group or an organosilyl group, or a phenyl group which may be substituted with a hydrocarbon group, an alkoxy group, a thioalkoxy group, an organosilyl group, a halogen atom, or a trifluoromethyl group. Also, B1 and B2 represent a thiophene ring which may be substituted with a hydrocarbon group, a thiazole ring which may be substituted with a hydrocarbon group, or an ethylene group."

The patent application was internationally filed on June 20, 2022, under International application No.PCT/JP2022/024509.

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