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Visible-Blind Narrowband Near-Infrared Photodetector for Precise Real-Time Photoplethysmography Measurement

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Ultraviolet Narrowband Photomultiplication Type Organic Photodetectors with Fabry−Pérot Resonator Architecture

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Tailored Non‐Fullerene Acceptors for Efficient Electron Trapping and High Photomultiplication in Flexible Organic Photodetectors

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Adopting Buffer Layer for Improving Signal‐to‐Noise Ratio of Broadband Photomultiplication Type Organic Photodetectors

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Broadband Organic Ternary Bulk Heterojunctions Photodetector Based on Non-Fullerene Acceptor with Enhanced Flat-Spectrum Response Range from 200 to 1100 nm

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Selective Charge Extraction Allows Fast Photomultiplication and Imaging in Rigid and Ultra‐Flexible SWIR Organic Photodiodes

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Observing halogen-bond-assisted electron transport in high-performance polymer solar cells

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Transfer-Printed Nanoscale Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) Layers for Organic Photodetectors

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Photomultiplication‐Type Organic Photodetectors: Mechanisms, Integration Toward Next‐Generation Sensing Platforms

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Understanding Interfacial Recombination Processes in Narrow-Band-Gap Organic Solar Cells

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SnS/PEDOT:PSS Heterostructure-Based High Performance UV-Visible Photodetectors

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High‐Performance Self‐Powered Organic Photodetectors for Near‐Infrared Weak Light Detection

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An asymmetric A-D-π-A type non-fullerene acceptor enables high-detectivity near-infrared organic photodiodes

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Non‐Contact Vitality Monitoring Enabled by Interface‐Modified Photomultiplication Organic Photodetectors

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Organic Thin Film Transistor Material Based Photomultiplication Type Organic Photodetectors via Balancing Hole Tunneling Injection and Transport

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Tailoring Hole‐Blocking Layers Enables a Versatile Approach for Fast Photomultiplication‐Type Organic Photodetectors

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Significant Dark Current Suppression in Organic Photodetectors Using Side Chain Fluorination of Conjugated Polymer

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Bias‐Switchable Photomultiplication and Photovoltaic Dual‐Mode Near‐Infrared Organic Photodetector

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Improving the Active Layer Crystallization Process by Promoting Acceptor Aggregation for High-Performance Near-Infrared Organic Photodetectors

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Design and Fabrication of High-Performance Organic Photodetector for Ambient Light PPG Sensor

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Challenges and recent advances in photodiodes-based organic photodetectors

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High-Performance All-Polymer Photodetectors Enabled by New Random Terpolymer Acceptor with Fine-Tuned Molecular Weight

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Impact of Thermal Stress on Device Physics and Morphology in Organic Photodetectors

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Near-Infrared Broadband Absorbing Polymer Acceptors for Flexible All-Polymer Photodetectors with High Detectivity

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Employing liquid crystal material as regulator to enhance performance of photomultiplication type polymer photodetectors

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Ultrathin Quasi‐2D Perovskite‐Organic Segregated‐Structure Coupling for High‐Performance Narrowband Photomultiplication Detectors

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Highly Sensitive Narrowband Photomultiplication‐Type Organic Photodetectors Prepared by Transfer‐Printed Technology

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Photomultiplication‐Type Organic Photodetectors for Near‐Infrared Sensing with High and Bias‐Independent Specific Detectivity

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Highly Sensitive Resonance-Enhanced Organic Photodetectors for Shortwave Infrared Sensing

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