The present invention is directed to organic photosensitive optoelectronic devices
and methods of use for determining the position of a light source. Provided is
an organic position sensitive detector (OPSD) comprising: a first electrode, which
is resistive and may be either an anode or a cathode; a first contact in electrical
contact with the first electrode; a second contact in electrical contact with the
first electrode; a second electrode disposed near the first electrode; a donor
semiconductive organic layer disposed between the first electrode and the second
electrode; and an acceptor semiconductive organic layer disposed between the first
electrode and the second electrode and adjacent to the donor semiconductive organic
layer. A hetero-junction is located between the donor layer and the acceptor layer,
and at least one of the donor layer and the acceptor layer is light absorbing.
The OPSD has an optical beam spatial resolution of 20 m and measurements
are insensitive to fluctuations in incident light beam intensity and background
illumination. The response of the OPSD shows high linearity, low positional error,
high spatial resolution, and good beam tracking velocity. The OPSDs exhibited linearities
and positional uncertainties of 1%.