US 11,929,391 B2
Electronic component and method of operating an electronic component
Hans Kleemann, Dresden (DE); Matteo Cucchi, Dresden (DE); Karl Leo, Dresden (DE); Veronika Scholz, Gaustritz (DE); Hsin Tseng, Dresden (DE); and Alexander Lee, Dresden (DE)
Assigned to Technische Universitat Dresden, Dresden (DE)
Appl. No. 17/753,106
Filed by Technische Universitat Dresden, Dresden (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 1, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/077504
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 18, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/069298, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 127 005 (DE), filed on Oct. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0320264 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. H10K 10/50 (2023.01); G06N 3/065 (2023.01); H01L 49/02 (2006.01); H10K 10/00 (2023.01)
CPC H01L 28/60 (2013.01) [H01L 28/55 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic component comprising:
a substrate, the substrate having at least two electrodes, the at least two electrodes each being spaced apart on and/or in the substrate;
wherein, when the electronic device is in a first operating state, an electrolytic material is disposed at least in a spatial region between the at least two electrodes, the electrolytic material comprising at least one polymerizable material;
wherein, when the electronic device is in a second operating state, at least one electrical connection is made between the at least two electrodes, the at least one electrical connection being made of an electrically conductive polymer; and
wherein the electrically conductive polymer comprises one or more fibrous structures, the one or more fibrous structures being in physical contact with the at least two electrodes,
wherein the one or more fibrous structures are singly or multiply branched,
wherein each fibrous structure of the one or more fibrous structures comprise a plurality of interwoven polymer chains.
 
14. An electronic component comprising:
a plurality of substrates disposed one above the other, each of the plurality of substrates comprising:
a plurality of electrodes spaced apart from one another on or in the substrate, and
an electrolytic material disposed in at least a spatial region between the plurality of electrodes, the electrolytic material comprising at least one polymerizable material; and
a control device for applying an electrical voltage between at least two of the plurality of electrodes of the respective substrate of the plurality of substrates, the control device being configured such that at least one electrical connection may be formed between the at least two electrodes of the respective substrate by electropolymerizing the at least one polymerizable material into an electrically conductive polymer,
wherein the electrically conductive polymer comprises one or more fibrous structures, the one or more fibrous structures being in physical contact with the at least two electrodes,
wherein the one or more fibrous structures are singly or multiply branched,
wherein each fibrous structure of the one or more fibrous structures comprise a plurality of interwoven polymer chains.
 
16. A method of operating an electronic device, the method comprising:
providing an electrolytic material at least in a spatial region between at least two electrodes, wherein the at least two electrodes are each configured on and/or in the substrate at a distance from each other and wherein the electrolytic material comprises at least one polymerizable material, and
forming at least one electrical connection between the at least two electrodes by polymerizing the at least one polymerizable material into an electrically conductive polymer;
wherein the formed electrically conductive polymer comprises one or more fibrous structures, the one or more fibrous structures being in physical contact with the at least two electrodes,
wherein the one or more fibrous structures are singly or multiply branched,
wherein each fibrous structure of the one or more fibrous structures comprise a plurality of interwoven polymer chains.