期刊
NANO RESEARCH
卷 5, 期 11, 页码 747-761出版社
TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-012-0258-6
关键词
Graphene nanoshell; ZnO-graphene quasi core-shell quantum dot (QD); ultraviolet (UV) photovoltaic cell; photoinduced charge separation; quenching
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资金
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) [2E22735]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [과06A1104] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
ZnO-graphene quasi core-shell quantum dot (QD) structures in which the inner ZnO QDs are covered with graphene nanoshells have been synthesized via a simple solution process method. The outer graphene nanoshells were identified as a single graphene layer using high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM). Zn-O-C (graphene) chemical bonds between the inner ZnO QDs and the oxygen-containing functional groups introduced into the graphene layer are believed to be important in the formation of the consolidated quasi core-shell QD structure. A multilayer structure organic ultraviolet (UV) photovoltaic (PV) device was fabricated using ZnO-graphene core-shell QDs as the absorption layer. A quenching behavior as large as 71% near the UV emission peak for the ZnO-graphene core-shell QDs was observed in the photoluminescence. Density of state (DOS) calculations for the graphene using density functional theory (DFT) revealed that the static quenching can be attributed to a faster charge separation via the direct electron transfer from the conduction band (CB) of the ZnO QDs to the induced lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (LUMO) of the graphene nanoshell resulting from the Zn-O-C bonding. This charge separation mechanism was confirmed experimentally using time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) measurements. The calculated average lifetime of 0.13 ns and 0.165 ns of the 375 and 383 nm UV emissions, respectively, for the ZnO-graphene core-shell QDs were approximately 10 times faster than those of 1.86 ns and 1.83 nm for the reference ZnO QDs; this is indicative of the existence of an additional high efficiency relaxation channel. The observed saturation current density (J (sc)), open circuit voltage (V (oc)), fill factor (FF), and power conversion efficiency (eta) were 196.4 mu A/cm(2), 0.99 V, 0.24, and 2.33%, respectively. In this study, it was found that the UV power conversion efficiency of ZnO QDs could be significantly improved by invoking a fast photoinduced charge separation and the subsequent transport of carriers to the collecting electrodes through conjugation with highly conductive graphene nanoshell acceptors to the ZnO QDs donor.
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