Colloidal Quantum-Dot Photodetectors Exploiting Multiexciton Generation
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- 19 June 2009
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 324 (5934), 1542-1544
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1173812
Abstract
Reaping Gain from Decay: In photovoltaic devices, absorbed light excites electrons into a conduction band and thereby initiates electric current flow. Unfortunately, if the energy of the incident photons exceeds the threshold for this excitation (the bandgap), the excess tends to be wasted. Initially, a photon bearing several multiples of the bandgap energy may correspondingly promote several electrons, but before these can begin to travel through a circuit, most of them drop back down to the immobile state, transferring their packet of energy to a lone remaining carrier in a process termed “Auger decay.” Sukhovatkin et al. (p. 1542 ) show that a photoconductive device design can actually leverage the Auger decay process to improve sensitivity in ultraviolet detection. Their detector, a thin film assembled from lead sulfide quantum dots, improves its response by up to a factor of four when the incident light frequency rises to several multiples of the bandgap.Keywords
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