Nature Communications (May 2019)

A colloidal quantum dot infrared photodetector and its use for intraband detection

  • Clément Livache,
  • Bertille Martinez,
  • Nicolas Goubet,
  • Charlie Gréboval,
  • Junling Qu,
  • Audrey Chu,
  • Sébastien Royer,
  • Sandrine Ithurria,
  • Mathieu G. Silly,
  • Benoit Dubertret,
  • Emmanuel Lhuillier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10170-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The field of wavefunction engineering using intraband transition to design infrared devices has been limited to epitaxially grown semiconductors. Here the authors demonstrate that a device with similar energy landscape can be obtained from a mixture of colloidal quantum dots made of HgTe and HgSe.