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JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 3206-3212Publisher
AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2016.12310
Keywords
Bacteriorhodopsin; Photonic Crystals; Grating Structures; Indium-Doped Zinc Oxide (IZO)
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of Japan [2406, 25107529, 25600033]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25107529, 25600033] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We fabricated a grating-structured electrode made of indium-doped zinc oxide (IZO) with a high refractive index (approximately 2) for a bacteriorhodopsin (bR) photocell. We investigated the photocurrent characteristics of the bR photocell and demonstrated that the photocurrent values from the bR/IZO electrode with the grating structure with a grating period of 340 nm were more than 3.5-4 times larger than those without the grating structure. The photocurrent enhancement was attributed to the resonance effect due to light coupling to the grating structure as well as the scattering effect based on the experimental results and analysis using the photonic band structure determined using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations. The refractive index of the bR film in electrolyte solution (1.40) used in the FDTD simulations was estimated by analyzing the extinction peak wavelength of 20-nm gold colloids in the bR film. Our results indicate that the grating-or photonic-crystal-structured transparent conductive oxide (TCO) electrodes can increase the light use efficiency of various bR devices such as artificial photosynthetic devices, solar cells, and light-sensing devices.
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