Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages 9899-9908Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b03414
Keywords
two-dimensional materials; hybrid organic-inorganic heterostructures; plasmonic metasurfaces; ultrafast pump-probe dynamics; charge transfer; solar energy
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [1515423]
- East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes
- NSF [DMR-1309459]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1309459] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office Of Internatl Science &Engineering
- Office Of The Director [1515423] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Hybrid organic-inorganic heterostructures are attracting tremendous attention for optoelectronic applications due to their low-cost processing and high performance in devices. In particular, van der Waals p-n heterojunctions formed between inorganic two-dimensional (2D) materials and organic semiconductors are of interest due to the quantum confinement effects of 2D materials and the synthetic control of the physical properties of organic semiconductors, enabling a high degree of tunable optoelectronic properties for the heterostructure. However, for photovoltaic applications, hybrid 2D organic heterojunctions have demonstrated low power conversion efficiencies due to the limited absorption from constraints on the physical thickness of each layer. Here, we investigate the ultrafast charge transfer dynamics between an organic polymer:fullerene blend and 2D n-type MoS2 using transient pump probe reflectometry. We employ plasmonic metasurfaces to enhance the absorption and charge photogeneration within the physically thin hybrid MoS2-organic heterojunction. For the hybrid MoS2-organic heterojunction in the presence of the plasmonic metasurface, the charge generation within the polymer is enhanced 6-fold, and the total active layer absorption bandwidth is increased by 90 nm relative to the polymer:fullerene blend alone. We demonstrate that MoS2-organic heterojunctions can serve as hybrid solar cells, and their efficiencies can be improved using plasmonic metasurfaces.
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