Hot carriers and their extraction have been demonstrated in organic-inorganic perovskites
under transient condition. Unfortunately, there was no real device to harvest hot carriers …

The energy gap of molecular semiconductors is a critical parameter in molecule-based
devices because it fundamentally determines the operating principle and device …

Ballistic electron emission microscopy (BEEM) and its spectroscopy utilize ballistic transport
of hot carriers as a versatile tool to characterize nanometer-scale structural and electronic …

The quantification of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level (LUMO) for molecular
semiconductors is of great importance, because it determines the charge transport process …

Two-dimensional heterostructures combined with vertical geometries are candidates to
probe and utilize the physical properties of atomically-thin materials. The vertical …

Utilizing three-terminal tunnel emission of ballistic electrons and holes in a planar tunnel
transistor with a Mott-barrier collector, we have developed a method to self-consistently …

The multifunction of molecule-based devices is always achieved by improving their charge
transport characteristics. These characteristics depend strongly on the energy levels of …

The dominant factor for hot electron collecting in internally photoemitted hot carrier (IPHC)
devices is still not clear under steady-state low intensity light. We here use SnO 2 as the …

Interfaces play a central role in determining properties of optical and electronic devices.
Many mature techniques exist for surface characterization, providing a great deal of detailed …

The tunnelling of electrons through barriers is important in field emission sources and in
interconnects within electronic devices. Here we use the analogy between the …