Enhanced mobility CsPbI3 quantum dot arrays for record-efficiency, high-voltage photovoltaic cells

EM Sanehira, AR Marshall, JA Christians… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
We developed lead halide perovskite quantum dot (QD) films with tuned surface chemistry
based on A-site cation halide salt (AX) treatments. QD perovskites offer colloidal synthesis …

Terahertz spectroscopy of nanomaterials: a close look at charge‐carrier transport

P Kužel, H Němec - Advanced Optical Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Terahertz spectroscopy has been used for almost two decades for investigations of
nanomaterials, including nanocrystals, nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes or 2D crystals …

Ultrafast carrier dynamics in BiVO 4 thin film photoanode material: interplay between free carriers, trapped carriers and low-frequency lattice vibrations

KT Butler, BJ Dringoli, L Zhou, PM Rao… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We explore ultrafast carrier dynamics and interactions of photoexcited carriers with lattice
vibrational modes in BiVO4 photoanode material using time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy …

Size-dependent exciton formation dynamics in colloidal silicon quantum dots

MR Bergren, PKB Palomaki, NR Neale, TE Furtak… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report size-dependent exciton formation dynamics within colloidal silicon quantum dots
(Si QDs) using time-resolved terahertz (THz) spectroscopy measurements. THz …

Fabricating femtosecond laser-induced periodic surface structures with electrophysical anisotropy on amorphous silicon

D Shuleiko, M Martyshov, D Amasev, D Presnov… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
One-dimensional periodic surface structures were formed by femtosecond laser irradiation
of amorphous hydrogenated silicon (a-Si: H) films. The a-Si: H laser processing conditions …

Ultrafast carrier dynamics and the role of grain boundaries in polycrystalline silicon thin films grown by molecular beam epitaxy

LV Titova, TL Cocker, S Xu, JM Baribeau… - Semiconductor …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We have used time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy to study microscopic photoconductivity
and ultrafast photoexcited carrier dynamics in thin, pure, non-hydrogenated silicon films …

Suppressing auger recombination in multiply excited colloidal silicon nanocrystals with ligand-induced hole traps

GM Carroll, R Limpens, GF Pach, Y Zhai… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nonradiative Auger recombination in multiply excited nanocrystals is a dominant efficiency
loss pathway for nanocrystal-containing optoelectronic devices that rely on high-rate …

Enhanced carrier mobility in Si nano-crystals via nanoscale phosphorus doping

D Shan, Y Ji, D Li, J Xu, M Qian, L Xu, K Chen - Applied Surface Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Usually, the conductivity of semiconductor can be increased after phosphorus (P) doping but
the electron mobility will be obviously reduced due to the strong impurity scattering. Here …

Highly efficient charge transfer in nanocrystalline Si: H solar cells

KG Kiriluk, JD Fields, BJ Simonds, YP Pai… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate that in nanostructured films of nanocrystalline silicon imbedded in a
hydrogenated amorphous silicon matrix, carriers generated in the amorphous region are …

Ultrafast electrical measurements of isolated silicon nanowires and nanocrystals

MR Bergren, CE Kendrick, NR Neale… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We simultaneously determined the charge carrier mobility and picosecond to nanosecond
carrier dynamics of isolated silicon nanowires (Si NWs) and nanocrystals (Si NCs) using …