Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Ultrasensitive photodetectors exploiting electrostatic trapping and percolation transport

  • Yingjie Zhang,
  • Daniel J. Hellebusch,
  • Noah D. Bronstein,
  • Changhyun Ko,
  • D. Frank Ogletree,
  • Miquel Salmeron,
  • A. Paul Alivisatos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11924
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Photodetector sensitivity is limited by charge carrier recombination. Here, Zhang et al. use nanocrystal ligand engineering and sintering to provide separate pathways for electron and holes, and to fabricate photodetectors with a high detectivity, especially promising for applications in low-light imaging.