Patent ID: 7755156
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
1. A device comprising: a layered array structure including: first and second substructures that meet and are attached at an interface surface, the first substructure including one or more active layers and having a first surface and the second substructure including one or more top electrode layers and having a second surface; the first and second surfaces meeting at the interface surface; one or more polymer-containing layers, each in a respective one of the first and second substructures; and two or more cell regions; each of a set of the cell regions including respective portions of the first and second substructures between which the first and second surfaces meet at the interface surface, with the cell region's first substructure portion including respective active layer portions that include at least a first subregion that includes electrically conductive material and at least a second subregion that includes semiconductive material and with the cell region's second substructure portion including a respective part of at least one of the top electrode layers; the layered array structure further including at least one of: (1) a first polymer-containing layer in the first substructure, the first surface being a surface of the first polymer-containing layer, the first polymer-containing layer being structured so that free charge carriers can be generated in it or charge carriers can be transported through it; the layered array structure including, on or in the first polymer-containing layer, a change in one or more of shape, texture, and composition, the change resulting from one or more of: (2) a second polymer-containing layer in the second substructure, the second surface being a surface of the second polymer-containing layer, the second polymer-containing layer being structured so that free charge carriers can be generated in it or charge carriers can be transported through it; the layered array structure including, on or in the second polymer-containing layer, a change in one or more of shape, texture, and composition, the change resulting from one or more of: (3) a first polymer-containing layer in the first substructure and a second polymer-containing layer in the second substructure, the first and second surfaces being surfaces respectively of the first and second polymer-containing layer; the first and second polymer-containing layers including first and second polymer-containing materials, respectively; the first and second polymer-containing materials being materials that can be laminated to each other.