Light detection is the underlying principle of many optoelectronic systems. For decades,
semiconductors including silicon carbide, silicon, indium gallium arsenide and germanium …

The chemistry, material processing and fundamental understanding of colloidal
semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots) are advancing at an astounding rate, bringing …

We describe here a simple, all-inorganic metal/NC/metal sandwich photovoltaic (PV) cell
that produces an exceptionally large short-circuit photocurrent (> 21 mA cm− 2) by way of a …

Solution-processed photovoltaics offer a cost-effective path to harvesting the abundant
resource that is solar energy. The organic and polymer semiconductors at the heart of these …

The use of thiol-terminated ligands has recently been reported to enhance 10-fold the power
conversion efficiency (PCE) of colloidal quantum dot (CQD) photovoltaic (PV) devices. We …

A facile approach to make an efficient hybrid bulk heterojunction photovoltaic device with
lead sulfide nanocrystals and a low-bandgap polymer is demonstarted, resulting in a power …

Nanocrystal/fullerene derivative inorganic-organic hybrid photodetectors exhibiting high
detectivity for near-IR wavelengths and a linear power dependence are produced. The …

A newly designed photoactive nanohybrid structure based on the combination of near-
infrared PbS quantum dots (QDs) as light harvester and one-dimensional TiO2 nanobelts …

A methodology for achieving versatile and facile ligand exchange by post-fabrication
chemical treatment in PbS nanocrystal: poly (3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT) hybrid composite …

Efficiency of organic solar cells shows a strong improvement when the transparent
conductive anode (indium tin oxide—ITO, aluminium-doped zinc oxide—AZO, fluorine …