TY - JOUR
T1 - An all-organic flexible visible light communication system
AU - Vega-Colado, César
AU - Arredondo, Belén
AU - Torres, Juan Carlos
AU - López-Fraguas, Eduardo
AU - Vergaz, Ricardo
AU - Martín-Martín, Diego
AU - Del Pozo, Gonzalo
AU - Romero, Beatriz
AU - Apilo, Palvi
AU - Quintana, Xabier
AU - Geday, Morten A.
AU - de Dios, Cristina
AU - Sánchez-Pena, José Manuel
N1 - Funding Information:
This Project was funded by Comunidad de Madrid through the SINFOTON-CM Research Program (S2013/MIT-2790), and the Spanish Ministry of Economy, the Agencia Estatal de Investigación and European Union's FEDER through the TEC2016-77242-C3-(1-R, 2-R and 3-R) AEI/FEDER, UE Projects.
PY - 2018/9/12
Y1 - 2018/9/12
N2 - Visible light communication systems can be used in a wide variety of applications, from driving to home automation. The use of wearables can increase the potential applications in indoor systems to send and receive specific and customized information. We have designed and developed a fully organic and flexible Visible Light Communication system using a flexible OLED, a flexible P3HT:PCBM-based organic photodiode (OPD) and flexible PCBs for the emitter and receiver conditioning circuits. We have fabricated and characterized the I-V curve, modulation response and impedance of the flexible OPD. As emitter we have used a commercial flexible organic luminaire with dimensions 99 × 99 × 0.88 mm, and we have characterized its modulation response. All the devices show frequency responses that allow operation over 40 kHz, thus enabling the transmission of high quality audio. Finally, we integrated the emitter and receiver components and its electronic drivers, to build an all-organic flexible VLC system capable of transmitting an audio file in real-time, as a proof of concept of the indoor capabilities of such a system.
AB - Visible light communication systems can be used in a wide variety of applications, from driving to home automation. The use of wearables can increase the potential applications in indoor systems to send and receive specific and customized information. We have designed and developed a fully organic and flexible Visible Light Communication system using a flexible OLED, a flexible P3HT:PCBM-based organic photodiode (OPD) and flexible PCBs for the emitter and receiver conditioning circuits. We have fabricated and characterized the I-V curve, modulation response and impedance of the flexible OPD. As emitter we have used a commercial flexible organic luminaire with dimensions 99 × 99 × 0.88 mm, and we have characterized its modulation response. All the devices show frequency responses that allow operation over 40 kHz, thus enabling the transmission of high quality audio. Finally, we integrated the emitter and receiver components and its electronic drivers, to build an all-organic flexible VLC system capable of transmitting an audio file in real-time, as a proof of concept of the indoor capabilities of such a system.
KW - Flexible electronics
KW - Organic light emitting diode
KW - Organic photodetector
KW - Visible light communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85053708013&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/s18093045
DO - 10.3390/s18093045
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053708013
SN - 1424-8220
VL - 18
JO - Sensors
JF - Sensors
IS - 9
M1 - 3045
ER -