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Silicon nanocrystal hybrid photovoltaic devices for indoor light energy harvesting
摘要： Silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) featuring size-dependent novel optical and electrical properties have been widely employed for various functional devices. We have demonstrated SiNC-based hybrid photovoltaics (SiNC-HPVs) and proposed several approaches for performance promotion. Recently, owing to the superiorities such as low power operation, high portability, and designability, organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have been extensively studied for their potential indoor applications as power sources. SiNCs exhibit strong light absorption below 450 nm, which is capable of sufficient photocurrent generation under UV irradiation. Therefore, SiNC-HPVs are expected to be preferably used for energy harvesting systems in indoor applications because an indoor light source consists of a shorter wavelength component below 500 nm than solar light. We successfully demonstrated SiNC-HPVs with a PCE as high as 9.7%, corresponding to the output power density of 34.0 mW cm?2 under standard indoor light irradiation (1000 lx). In addition, we have found that SiNC defects working as electron traps influence the electrical properties of SiNCs substantially, a thermal annealing process was conducted towards the suppression of defects and the improvement of the SiNC-HPVs performance.
关键词： Silicon nanocrystals,Power conversion efficiency,Indoor light energy harvesting,Thermal annealing,Hybrid photovoltaics
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Photothermal Transduction Efficiencies of Plasmonic Group 4 Metal Nitride Nanocrystals
摘要： The photothermal transduction e?ciencies of group 4 metal nitrides, TiN, ZrN, and HfN, at λ = 850 nm are reported, and the performance of these materials is compared to an Au nanorod benchmark. Transition metal nitride nanocrystals with an average diameter of ～15 nm were prepared using a solid-state metathesis reaction. HfN exhibited the highest photothermal transduction e?ciency of 65%, followed by ZrN (58%) and TiN (49%), which were all higher than those of the commercially purchased Au nanorods (43%). Computational studies performed using a ?nite element method showed HfN and Au to have the lowest and highest scattering cross section, respectively, which could be a contributing factor to the e?ciency trends observed. Furthermore, the changes in temperature as a function of illumination intensity and solution concentration, as well as the cycling stability of the metal nitride solutions, were studied in detail.
关键词： nanocrystals,plasmonic,photothermal transduction,metal nitrides,Au nanorods
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Colloidal Synthesis of Ternary Copper Halides Nanocrystals for High-Efficiency Deep-Blue Light-Emitting Diodes with a Half-Lifetime Above 100 Hours
摘要： Currently, the blue perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) suffer from a compromise in lead-toxicity and poor operation stability, and most previous studies have struggled to meet the crucial blue NTSC standard. In this study, electrically-driven deep-blue LEDs (~445 nm) based on zero-dimensional (0D) Cs3Cu2I5 nanocrystals (NCs) were demonstrated with the color coordinates of (0.16, 0.07) and a high external quantum efficiency of ~1.12%, comparable with the best-performing blue LEDs based on lead-halide perovskites. Encouraged by the remarkable stability of Cs3Cu2I5 NCs against heat and environmental oxygen/moisture, the proposed device was operated in a continuous current mode for 170 h, producing a record half-lifetime of ~108 h. The device stability was further verified by an aggressive thermal cycling test (300?360?300 K) and a 35-day storage test. Together with the eco-friendly features and facile colloidal synthesis technique, the 0D Cs3Cu2I5 NCs can be therefore regarded as a promising candidate for deep-blue LEDs applications.
关键词： self-trapped excitons,light-emitting diodes,stability,Cs3Cu2I5 nanocrystals,deep-blue
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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All-fiber passively Q-switched erbium-doped laser with Cr <sup>2+</sup> :ZnSe nanocrystals saturable absorber
摘要： We experimentally demonstrate an all-fiber Q-switched erbium-doped laser using polyvinyl alcohol-based Cr2+:ZnSe nanocrystals (NCs) as saturable absorbers (SAs). The Cr2+:ZnSe NCs were produced by femtosecond laser ablation, and were spherical, with an average radius of about 107 nm. The nonlinear saturable absorption was characterized with a saturable optical intensity of 20 MW cm?2 and a modulation depth of ～24%. By placing the SA inside an erbium-doped fiber (EDF) laser cavity, a stable 3.152 μs pulse with a repetition rate of 34.452 kHz centered at 1564 nm was achieved, when pumped at the maximum pumping power of 300 mW. The maximum pulse energy reached 33 nJ and the signal-to-noise ratio was 48 dB. The results indicate that Cr2+:ZnSe NCs are promising for the development of a stable all-fiber passively Q-switched EDF laser.
关键词： Cr2+: ZnSe nanocrystals,passively Q-switched,all-fiber laser
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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New Unsymmetrical Bisacridine Derivatives Noncovalently Attached to Quaternary Quantum Dots Improve Cancer Therapy by Enhancing Cytotoxicity toward Cancer Cells and Protecting Normal Cells
摘要： The use of nanoparticles for the controlled drug delivery to cells has emerged as a good alternative to traditional systemic delivery. Quantum dots (QDs) offer potentially invaluable societal benefits such as drug targeting and in vivo biomedical imaging. In contrast, QDs may also pose risks to human health and the environment under certain conditions. Here, we demonstrated that a unique combination of nanocrystals core components (Ag-In-Zn-S) would eliminate the toxicity problem and increase their biomedical applications. The alloyed quaternary nanocrystals Ag-In-Zn-S (QDgreen, Ag1.0In1.2Zn5.6S9.4; QDred, Ag1.0In1.0Zn1.0S3.5) were used to transport new unsymmetrical bisacridine derivatives (UAs, C-2028 and C-2045) into lung H460 and colon HCT116 cancer cells for improving the cytotoxic and antitumor action of these compounds. UAs were coupled with QD through physical adsorption. The obtained results clearly indicate that the synthesized nanoconjugates exhibited higher cytotoxic activity than unbound compounds, especially toward lung H460 cancer cells. Importantly, unsymmetrical bisacridines noncovalently attached to QD strongly protect normal cells from the drug action. It is worth pointing out that QDgreen or QDred without UAs did not influence the growth of cancer and normal cells, which is consistent with in vivo results. In noncellular systems, at pH 5.5 and 4.0, which relates to the conditions of endosomes and lysosomes, the UAs were released from QD-UAs nanoconjugates. An increase of total lysosomes content was observed in H460 cells treated with QDs-UAs which can affect the release of the UAs from the conjugates. Moreover, confocal laser scanning microscopy analyses revealed that QD-UAs nanoconjugates enter H460 cells more efficiently than to HCT116 and normal cells, which may be the reason for their higher cytotoxicity against lung cancer. Summarizing, the noncovalent attachment of UAs to QDs increases the therapeutic efficiency of UAs by improving cytotoxicity toward lung H460 cancer cells and having protecting effects on normal cells.
关键词： lung and colon cancer cells,unsymmetrical bisacridine derivatives,drug-carrier degradation pathway,pH-dependent release,cellular uptake,in vivo antitumor efficacy,Ag-In-Zn-S nanocrystals,cytotoxic activity
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Reconfigurable 2D/0D pa??n Graphene/HgTe Nanocrystal Heterostructure for Infrared Detection
摘要： Nanocrystals are promising building blocks for the development of low-cost infrared optoelectronics. Gating a nanocrystal film in a phototransistor geometry is commonly proposed as a strategy to tune the signal-to-noise ratio by carefully controlling the carrier density within the semiconductor. However, the performance improvement has so far been quite marginal. With metallic electrodes, the gate dependence of the photocurrent follows the gate-induced change of the dark current. Graphene presents key advantages: (i) infrared transparency that allows back-side illumination, (ii) vertical electric field transparency, and (iii) carrier selectivity under gate bias. Here, we investigate a configuration of 2D/0D infrared photodetectors taking advantage of a high capacitance ionic glass gate, large-scale graphene electrodes, and a HgTe nanocrystals layer of high carrier mobility. The introduction of graphene electrodes combined with ionic glass enables one to reconfigure selectively the HgTe nanocrystals and the graphene electrodes between electron-doped (n) and hole-doped (p) states. We unveil that this functionality enables the design a 2D/0D p?n junction that expands throughout the device, with a built-in electric field that assists charge dissociation. We demonstrate that, in this specific configuration, the signal-to-noise ratio for infrared photodetection can be enhanced by 2 orders of magnitude, and that photovoltaic operation can be achieved. The detectivity now reaches 109 Jones, whereas the device only absorbs 8% of the incident light. Additionally, the time response of the device is fast (<10 μs), which strongly contrasts with the slow response commonly observed for 2D/0D mixed-dimensional heterostructures, where larger photoconduction gains come at the cost of slower response.
关键词： gate-induced diode,infrared detection,narrow band gap nanocrystals,HgTe,graphene
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Structural dynamics in proteins induced by and probed with X-ray free-electron laser pulses
摘要： X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) enable crystallographic structure determination beyond the limitations imposed upon synchrotron measurements by radiation damage. The need for very short XFEL pulses is relieved through gating of Bragg diffraction by loss of crystalline order as damage progresses, but not if ionization events are spatially non-uniform due to underlying elemental distributions, as in biological samples. Indeed, correlated movements of iron and sulfur ions were observed in XFEL-irradiated ferredoxin microcrystals using unusually long pulses of 80 fs. Here, we report a femtosecond time-resolved X-ray pump/X-ray probe experiment on protein nanocrystals. We observe changes in the protein backbone and aromatic residues as well as disulfide bridges. Simulations show that the latter’s correlated structural dynamics are much slower than expected for the predicted high atomic charge states due to significant impact of ion caging and plasma electron screening. This indicates that dense-environment effects can strongly affect local radiation damage-induced structural dynamics.
关键词： plasma electron screening,radiation damage,ion caging,structural dynamics,protein nanocrystals,X-ray free-electron lasers
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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A chain is as strong as its weakest link – Stability study of MAPbI3 under light and temperature
摘要： The stability of perovskite solar cells is a key issue for industrial development. One reason for this is the volatile organic methylammonium (MA) cation, which is prone to degas under elevated temperatures from the perovskite. At the same time, small amounts of MA are used for practically all highest performing solar cells. These compositions have also shown relatively promising stabilities. This raises the question of MA stability with respect to different, application-dependent stability requirements. Interestingly, MA stability was mainly studied on thin films that differ from full devices or with architectures which are also prone to degrade. Therefore, the degradation behavior on complete MA containing devices with a relatively stable architecture is required to quantify the long-term stability of MA. This enables to determine at which timescales MA is unstable and which role it can play in future compositions. If MA is indeed unstable at much longer timescales than previously recorded, it also indicates that more severe degradation pathways are currently underappreciated. Here, “weakest link” MAPbI3 devices are used, i.e. showing promising stability: devices retained 100% of their initial efficiency over 1000 h of aging under constant illumination and maximum power point tracking at 20 °C. At elevated temperatures of 50 and 65 °C, the devices retained 100% and 90% of their initial efficiency after 500 h of illumination, respectively. Impressively, at 95 °C the MAPbI3 device retained 85% after 500 h under constant illumination of its initial efficiency, which is some of the best stability data reported to date for MA. Thus, MA-containing devices require further studying. Nevertheless to achieve the necessary industrial lifetimes of more than 25 years, the complete removal of MA is a sensible precaution to systematically avoid any long-term risk factors.
关键词： Electrocatalysis,Renewable energy,Metallic nanocrystals,Two-dimensional
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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Effect of Ligand Treatment on the Tuning of Infrared Plasmonic Indium Tin Oxide Nanocrystal Electrochromic Devices
摘要： Electrochromic devices operating in the near infrared are being developed as a part of smart windows that can dynamically modulate visible light and heat transmittance of solar irradiation, dependent on weather conditions and personal preferences. Here, doped metal-oxide nanocrystals are used to obtain the desired effect in the infrared spectral region. Specifically, the infrared transmittance is electrochemically modulated by control of the carrier concentration in the nanocrystals. While indium-tin-oxide nanocrystals are already known to provide this effect, the consequence of ligand treatment during preparation of the nanocrystal electrode on the electrochromic properties are studied. The type of ligand treatment is shown to affect the surface morphology, as well as the localized plasmon resonance energy of the nanocrystal films. A short and convenient treatment by ethanedithiol cross linking ligands is shown to provide superior results as compared to the formic acid treatment used in the previous work. Future work combining windows based on optimized electrochromic effects in the near infrared combined with those in the visible spectral range will simultaneously improve building energy efficiency and indoor human comfort.
关键词： metal oxide nanocrystals,localized surface plasmon resonances,Electrochromic windows,ligand exchange
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01
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[IEEE 2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) - Chicago, IL, USA (2019.6.16-2019.6.21)] 2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) - Optoelectronic Characterization of Emerging Solar Absorber Cu <sub/>3</sub> AsS <sub/>4</sub>
摘要： Enargite Cu3AsS4 is a promising absorber for thin-film solar cells but little is known about its optoelectronic properties. Here, we present photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy, time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy (TRTS), time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) spectroscopy, and cyclic voltammetry (CV) measurements of enargite thin films. The results indicate promising defect characteristics with minority carrier lifetimes on the order of ns, and band alignments suggest that buffer layers besides CdS must be developed to achieve high efficiency Cu3AsS4 solar cells.
关键词： photovoltaic cells,copper compounds,thin film devices,semiconductor materials,nanocrystals
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:01