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NANO LETTERS
Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages 5234-5239Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl202550v
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QD sensitized solar cell; THz spectroscopy; electron transfer; Marcus theory; PbSe QDs
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- Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
- 3TU Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (Federation of the Three Universities of Technology)
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We report the direct and unambiguous determination of electron transfer rates and efficiencies from PbSe quantum dots (QDs) to mesoporous SnO2 films. We monitor the time-dependent electron density within the oxide with picosecond time resolution using Terahertz spectroscopy, following optical excitation of the QDs using a femtosecond laser pulse. QD-oxide electron transfer occurs with efficiencies of similar to 2% in our samples under 800 nm pumping with a marked dependence on QD size, ranging from similar to 100 ps injection times for the smallest, similar to 2 nm diameter QDs, to similar to 1 ns time scale for similar to 7 nm QDs. The size-dependent electron transfer rates are modeled within the framework of Marcus theory and the implications of the results for device design are discussed.
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