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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Raphael Schwanninger, Stefan M. Koepfli, Olesya Yarema, Alexander Dorodnyy, Maksym Yarema, Annina Moser, Shadi Nashashibi, Yuriy Fedoryshyn, Vanessa Wood, Juerg Leuthold
Summary: We demonstrate compact and efficient photodetectors operating at room temperature in a wavelength range of 2710-4250 nm with high responsivities of 375 and 4 A/W. The key to their high performance is the combination of a sintered colloidal quantum dot (CQD) heterojunction photoconductor and a metallic metasurface perfect absorber. The combination results in a 20-fold increase in responsivity compared to reference photoconductors.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2023)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jacopo Pinna, Razieh Mehrabi Koushki, Dnyaneshwar S. Gavhane, Majid Ahmadi, Suhas Mutalik, Muhammad Zohaib, Loredana Protesescu, Bart J. Kooi, Giuseppe Portale, Maria Antonietta Loi
Summary: Nanoscale-level controlled ordering of colloidal quantum dots allows the achievement of outstanding transport properties, paving the way toward a new generation of optoelectronic devices.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2023)
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Tom Galle, Daniel Spittel, Nelli Weiss, Volodymyr Shamraienko, Helena Decker, Maximilian Georgi, Rene Huebner, Nadia Metzkow, Christine Steinbach, Dana Schwarz, Vladimir Lesnyak, Alexander Eychmueller
Summary: The research transforms CdSe NPLs into PbSe NPLs suitable for optoelectronic applications through cation exchange, ligand exchange, and electronic coupling, successfully fabricating a photodetector with fast light response at low operational voltages on a commercial substrate.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
(2021)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Lijing Yu, Pin Tian, Libin Tang, Qun Hao, Kar Seng Teng, Hefu Zhong, Biao Yue, Haipeng Wang, Shunying Yan
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Michael P. Campos, Jonathan De Roo, Matthew W. Greenberg, Brandon M. McMurtry, Mark P. Hendricks, Ellie Bennett, Natalie Saenz, Matthew Y. Sfeir, Benjamin Abecassis, Sanjit K. Ghose, Jonathan S. Owen
Summary: A library of thio- and selenourea derivatives is used to adjust the kinetics of PbS and PbSe nanocrystal formation at various temperatures, revealing an induction delay and exploring the structure and size distribution of the nanocrystals, with results suggesting that the duration of the nucleation period has a minor influence on the size distribution.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Nima Taghipour, Ibrahim Tanriover, Mariona Dalmases, Guy L. Whitworth, Christina Graham, Avijit Saha, Onur Ozdemir, Biswajit Kundu, Valerio Pruneri, Koray Aydin, Gerasimos Konstantatos
Summary: This study demonstrates the potential of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) for solution-processed laser diodes by using a binary blend of QDs and ZnO nanocrystals. The study also shows the observation of infrared amplified spontaneous emission and stimulated emission, suggesting a promising device for realizing infrared QD-based laser diodes.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2022)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Duo Chen, Yuxuan Liu, Bing Xia, Long Chen, Yang Yang, Gaoyuan Yang, Jing Liu, Shuaicheng Lu, Ciyu Ge, Peilin Liu, Junrui Yang, Guijie Liang, Xinzheng Lan, Xiangbin Zeng, Luying Li, Jianbing Zhang, Zewen Xiao, Liang Gao, Jiang Tang
Summary: This study reports a novel strategy of using perovskite-bridged PbS CQDs to achieve improved passivation and enhanced stability in large-size PbS CQDs, leading to enhanced performance of infrared CQDs photodiodes.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2023)
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Energy & Fuels
Rabia Bashir, Muhammad Kashif Bilal, Amna Bashir, Awais Ali
Summary: Lead selenide quantum dots (PbSe QDs) possess remarkable features due to their adjustable bandgap and low-temperature synthesis. In addition to the efficient QDs active layer, the electron transport layer (ETL) also plays a significant role in achieving high-efficiency colloidal quantum dots solar cells (CQDSCs). Undoped and 1-3% lithium-doped zinc oxide (LZO) sol-gel is introduced as an ETL and incorporated into CQDSCs to achieve high efficiency. The results show that 2 wt% Li-doping in ZnO ETL significantly improves the conduction band minimum and transmittance, while reducing oxygen defect densities and film roughness compared to other ETLs. Furthermore, PbSe CQDSCs with 2 wt% Li-doped ZnO ETL demonstrate the highest power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 10.80%, which is 7.5% higher than ZnO-based PbSe CQDSCs. Similarly, LZO-based PbSe CQDSCs with 2 wt% Li-doping exhibit long-term stability for approximately 40 days. Li-doping in ZnO offers a promising approach for low-cost, high-performance CQDSCs.
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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Gaotian Zhang, Xi Ke, Xiao Liu, Haijun Liao, Weizhe Wang, He Yu, Kunqiang Wang, Shuhui Yang, Chen Tu, Huaimin Gu, Dongxiang Luo, Le Huang, Menglong Zhang
Summary: This study presents the atomic engineering of CsPbBr3/PbSe heterogeneous interfaces and the conversion from incoherent features to semicoherent characters. The photocatalytic performances and theoretical calculations demonstrate that semicoherent interfaces can improve the activity and reactivity of the heterostructure, resulting in efficient photocatalytic CO2 reduction.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2022)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Mingyu Li, Shiwu Chen, Xinzhao Zhao, Kao Xiong, Bo Wang, Usman Ali Shah, Liang Gao, Xinzheng Lan, Jianbing Zhang, Hsien-Yi Hsu, Jiang Tang, Haisheng Song
Summary: Infrared solar cells incorporating PbS colloidal quantum dots show high efficiency and stability under full-spectrum illumination, with novel energy-level aligned ZnO thin film and hybrid ligand passivation strategies boosting the performance. The development of matched charge extraction and QD passivation approaches is expected to advance QD optoelectronics technology.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Guilherme Almeida, Lara van der Poll, Wiel H. Evers, Emma Szoboszlai, Sander J. W. Vonk, Freddy T. Rabouw, Arjan J. Houtepen
Summary: This study reports on the size-dependent optical properties and biexciton lifetimes of core-only InP colloidal quantum dots. The novel synthesis method allows for the production of a range of monodisperse InP quantum dots with narrow absorption and emission linewidths and high quantum yields.
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Chemistry, Analytical
Lijing Yu, Pin Tian, Libin Tang, Wenbin Zuo, Hefu Zhong, Qun Hao, Kar Seng Teng, Guiqin Zhao, Runhong Su, Xiaoxia Gong, Jun Yuan
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Chemistry, Physical
Arun Ashokan, Paul Mulvaney
Summary: Solution-phase spectroelectrochemistry was used to study electron injection into colloidal CdSe quantum dots in THF. The results showed reversible optical changes on a time-scale of minutes, with the injection of electrons leading to quenching of photoluminescence. The number of electrons injected into the QDs depended on the electrode potential and QD size, with most injection occurring below the band edge.
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
(2021)
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Chemistry, Physical
Witold Palosz, Sudhir Trivedi, Eric DeCuir, Priyalal S. Wijewarnasuriya, Susanna M. Thon, Yan Cheng, Chengchangfeng Lu, Janet L. Jensen
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(2021)
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Chemistry, Physical
Bastiaan B. Salzmann, Jur de Wit, Chen Li, Daniel Arenas-Esteban, Sara Bals, Andries Meijerink, Daniel Vanmaekelbergh
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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
(2022)
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Itay Gdor, Arthur Shapiro, Chunfan Yang, Diana Yanover, Efrat Lifshitz, Sanford Ruhman
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Gary Zaiats, Arthur Shapiro, Diana Yanover, Yaron Kauffmann, Aldona Sashchiuk, Efrat Lifshitz
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
(2015)
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Arthur Shapiro, Youngjin Jang, Anna Rubin-Brusilovski, Adam K. Budniak, Faris Horani, Aldona Sashchiuk, Efrat Lifshitz
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
(2016)
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Chemistry, Physical
Youngjin Jang, Diana Yanover, Richard Karel Capek, Arthur Shapiro, Nathan Grumbach, Yaron Kauffmann, Aldona Sashchiuk, Efrat Lifshitz
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
(2016)
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(2017)
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(2017)
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Yahel Barak, Itay Meir, Arthur Shapiro, Youngjin Jang, Efrat Lifshitz
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2018)
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Chemistry, Physical
Arthur Shapiro, Youngjin Jang, Faris Horani, Yaron Kauffmann, Efrat Lifshitz
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
(2018)
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Youngjin Jang, Arthur Shapiro, Faris Horani, Azhar Abu-Hariri, Efrat Lifshitz
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
(2018)
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Youngjin Jang, Arthur Shapiro, Faris Horani, Yaron Kauffmann, Efrat Lifshitz
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(2018)
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Arthur Shapiro, Markus W. Heindl, Faris Horani, Meir-Haim Dahan, Jiang Tang, Yaron Amouyal, Efrat Lifshitz
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
(2019)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL
(2019)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Youngjin Jang, Arthur Shapiro, Maya Isarov, Anna Rubin-Brusilovski, Aron Safran, Adam K. Budniak, Faris Horani, Joanna Dehnel, Aldona Sashchiuk, Efrat Lifshitz
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2017)