Nanoscale strategies for light harvesting

S Kundu, A Patra - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Recent advances and the current status of challenging light-harvesting nanomaterials, such
as semiconducting quantum dots (QDs), metal nanoparticles, semiconductor–metal …

Fundamentals of the nanowire solar cell: Optimization of the open circuit voltage

JEM Haverkort, EC Garnett, EPAM Bakkers - Applied Physics Reviews, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Present day nanowire solar cells have reached an efficiency of 17.8%. Nanophotonic
engineering by nanowire tapering allows for high solar light absorption. In combination with …

One-dimensional CdS@ MoS2 core-shell nanowires for boosted photocatalytic hydrogen evolution under visible light

B Han, S Liu, N Zhang, YJ Xu, ZR Tang - Applied Catalysis B …, 2017 - Elsevier
The well-defined one-dimensional (1D) CdS@ MoS 2 (CM) core-shell nanowires are
constructed by employing CdS nanowires (CdS NWs) as nanobuilding blocks via a facile …

GaAs/AlGaAs nanowire photodetector

X Dai, S Zhang, Z Wang, G Adamo, H Liu, Y Huang… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate an efficient core–shell GaAs/AlGaAs nanowire photodetector operating at
room temperature. The design of this nanoscale detector is based on a type-I heterostructure …

Interfacial Electron Transfer Barrier at Compact TiO2/CH3NH3PbI3 Heterojunction

G **ng, B Wu, S Chen, J Chua, N Yantara… - Small, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Low‐temperature solution‐processed CH3NH3PbI3 interfaced with TiO2 has recently been
demonstrated as a highly successful type‐II light harvesting heterojunction with≈ 20 …

An efficient self-assembly of CdS nanowires–reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites for selective reduction of nitro organics under visible light irradiation

S Liu, Z Chen, N Zhang, ZR Tang… - The Journal of Physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The CdS nanowires–reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites (CdS NWs–RGO NCs)
combining one-dimensional (1-D) with two-dimensional (2-D) structures are successfully …

An enhanced surface passivation effect in InGaN/GaN disk-in-nanowire light emitting diodes for mitigating Shockley–Read–Hall recombination

C Zhao, TK Ng, A Prabaswara, M Conroy, S Jahangir… - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a detailed study of the effects of dangling bond passivation and the comparison
of different sulfide passivation processes on the properties of InGaN/GaN quantum-disk …

High‐responsivity photodetection by a self‐catalyzed phase‐pure p‐GaAs nanowire

H Ali, Y Zhang, J Tang, K Peng, S Sun, Y Sun, F Song… - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Defects are detrimental for optoelectronics devices, such as stacking faults can form carrier‐
transportation barriers, and foreign impurities (Au) with deep‐energy levels can form carrier …

A nanotree-like CdS/ZnO nanocomposite with spatially branched hierarchical structure for photocatalytic fine-chemical synthesis

S Liu, MQ Yang, ZR Tang, YJ Xu - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Branched hierarchical CdS/ZnO nanocomposites have been synthesized for application
toward photocatalytic fine-chemical synthesis. Growing ZnO nanorods on the surface of CdS …

An ultrafast switchable terahertz polarization modulator based on III–V semiconductor nanowires

SA Baig, JL Boland, DA Damry, HH Tan, C Jagadish… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Progress in the terahertz (THz) region of the electromagnetic spectrum is undergoing major
advances, with advanced THz sources and detectors being developed at a rapid pace. Yet …