Light Harvesting and Enhanced Performance of Si Quantum Dot/Si Nanowire Heterojunction Solar Cells

Si nanowires (Si NWs) structures with good antireflection and enhanced optical‐absorption properties are used to fabricate Si quantum dots/Si NWs heterojunction solar cells. The Si NWs prepared by the metal‐assisted chemical‐etching technique exhibit a very low reflection in a wide spectral range (300–1200 nm). Correspondingly, the optical absorption reaches as high as 88.9% by weighting AM1.5G solar spectrum. Both the short current density and open current voltage are improved compared to the reference flat cell. However, the photovoltaic properties are degraded by varying the Si NWs with long etching time, possibly due to the increased etching‐induced surface states. The optimal Si NWs lead to the best cell with the power conversion efficiency of 11.3%.     

石墨烯量子点荧光探针测定肾上腺色腙

通过高温裂解柠檬酸合成了水溶性石墨烯量子点(GQDs),并应用钝化剂PEG2000进行修饰,提高了GQDs的量子产率。应用荧光光谱、紫外-可见光谱、红外光谱对其发光特性进行了研究,测定了荧光寿命。实验发现,在p H=7.40的Tris-HCl缓冲液中,肾上腺色腙(CBZC)对GQDs荧光强度有明显的猝灭作用。基于此提出了以GQDs为探针测定肾上腺色腙的新方法。实验考察了缓冲溶液用量、缓冲溶液种类、量子点浓度、反应时间以及表面活性剂等多种因素对反应体系的影响。当量子点浓度为2.3×10-3mol/L时,肾上腺色腙浓度在4.0×10-7~1.2×10-5mol/L(0.995 6)范围内与荧光猝灭值ΔF呈良好的线性关系,方法检出限为1.5×10-7mol/L,相对标准偏差为0.15%(n=5,c=4.0×10-6mol/L)。该方法对于样品中肾上腺色腙含量测定的回收率为97.46%~101.6%。通过测定温度对猝灭常数的影响以及紫外-可见吸收光谱的变化确定了二者的猝灭过程和相互作用力类型。     

CdSe和CdTe量子点荧光共振能量转移的荧光场三维数值分析

量子点虽然广泛应用于生物荧光标记,但仍停留在实验阶段,目前还不能通过实验的办法得到量子点的荧光分布特征。利用有限元的方法对量子点的荧光场分布特征进行了数值模拟计算,选取几种不同材料球形量子点进行电磁散射分析,论述了量子点的荧光场分布规律。通过对单个量子点进行荧光场分析,确定了CdSe量子点、CdTe量子点荧光共振能量转移模型,计算结果表明:量子点的荧光场的分布规律可以由量子点的电磁散射场给出,对量子点散射场的分析有助于我们更细致地了解量子点荧光共振能量转移的过程,对于探知一般实验无法得到的量子点荧光场分布规律是可行的。该结果对控制量子点的荧光分布,提高量子点荧光效率具有重要的实际意义。     

Ab Initio Simulation of Charge Transfer at the Semiconductor Quantum Dot/TiO2 Interface in Quantum Dot‐Sensitized Solar Cells

Quantum dot‐sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) have emerged as a promising solar architecture for next‐generation solar cells. The QDSSCs exhibit a remarkably fast electron transfer from the quantum dot (QD) donor to the TiO₂ acceptor with size quantization properties of QDs that allows for the modulation of band energies to control photoresponse and photoconversion efficiency of solar cells. To understand the mechanisms that underpin this rapid charge transfer, the electronic properties of CdSe and PbSe QDs with different sizes on the TiO₂ substrate are simulated using a rigorous ab initio density functional method. This method capitalizes on localized orbital basis set, which is computationally less intensive. Quite intriguingly, a remarkable set of electron bridging states between QDs and TiO₂ occurring via the strong bonding between the conduction bands of QDs and TiO₂ is revealed. Such bridging states account for the fast adiabatic charge transfer from the QD donor to the TiO₂ acceptor, and may be a general feature for strongly coupled donor/acceptor systems. All the QDs/TiO₂ systems exhibit type II band alignments, with conduction band offsets that increase with the decrease in QD size. This facilitates the charge transfer from QDs donors to TiO₂ acceptors and explains the dependence of the increased charge transfer rate with the decreased QD size.     

表面配体和器件结构对PbS胶体量子点电池性能的影响

利用吸收光谱、傅里叶变换红外光谱和循环伏安等表征技术,分析了利用四丁基碘化铵(TBAI)和1,2-乙二硫醇(EDT)配体钝化处理的PbS胶体量子点的光学性质、表面化学及其能级结构,并在此基础上分别以PbS-TBAI薄膜、PbS-EDT薄膜和PbS-TBAI/PbS-EDT薄膜作为有源层制备了PbS胶体量子点/Zn O纳米粒子异质结太阳能电池,以比较研究表面配体和器件结构对器件光伏性能及其稳定性的影响。结果表明,TBAI和EDT均能与PbS胶体量子点表面原有的油酸配体实现良好置换,但是配体置换之后量子点表面均残留少量油酸分子; PbS-TBAI薄膜的导带底为-5.12 eV,价带顶为-3. 86 eV,而PbS-EDT薄膜的导带底为-4. 99 eV,价带顶为-3. 74 eV,后者相对前者出现了明显的能带上移; PbS-TBAI/PbS-EDT双配体器件的光伏性能最优,能量转化效率达到4. 43%;随着空气暴露时间的增加,PbS-TBAI/PbS-EDT双配体器件和PbS-TBAI单配体器件表现出相似的性能变化趋势,于3 d后达到最优光伏性能,而PbS-EDT单配体器件的空气稳定性差,3 d后的能量转换效率下降至初始效率的1/4。本工作的研究结果将不仅有助于加深对PbS胶体量子点电池性能变化规律的认识,而且有望促进该类电池制备技术的进一步优化。     

碳量子点/曙红Y比率型荧光探针测定L-抗坏血酸

以天然生物质去皮的蓖麻为碳源,采用一步水热法合成了荧光性能优良的绿色荧光蓖麻碳量子点(CO-CQDs),对其形貌和发光性能进行了表征。通过将该CO-CQDs与荧光极强的卤代荧光素染料曙红Y(EY)复合,二者可形成荧光发射峰相距较远的新型CO-CQDs/EY复合物。在pH=4.00的Na₂HPO₄-柠檬酸缓冲溶液中,在320 nm的激发波长下,CO-CQDs/EY复合物于405 nm和540 nm处显示出两个独立的荧光发射峰。在该体系中加入Cr(Ⅵ),405 nm和540 nm两处的荧光信号均显著猝灭。L-抗坏血酸(L-ascorbic acid,AA)的加入可使复合物于540 nm的荧光信号恢复,而405 nm处的荧光强度基本不变。据此建立了一种以CO-CQDs/EY复合物为比率型荧光探针测定AA的新方法。实验测定了荧光信号恢复的最佳条件和影响荧光恢复的因素,初步探讨了反应机理。在优化的实验条件下,该探针于540 nm/405 nm两处的荧光强度比值与AA的浓度在5.0×10^-8～4.0×10^-6 ...     

CdSe/ZnSe/ZnS量子点在单晶太阳能电池中的应用

将CdSe/ZnSe/ZnS量子点掺入到聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯(PMMA)中,研究了量子点的发光下转移特性。将420 nm长波滤光片盖在单晶电池上,使电池对300~420 nm波段光谱响应几乎为零,同时排除下转移层抗反射效应的影响,再在滤光片表面制备下转移层,观察到了外量子效率(EQE)值的提升,说明所用量子点可以应用于对300~420 nm波段光谱响应几乎为零的电池上实现频率的下转移,提高EQE。对量子点在太阳能电池中应用的可能性进行了分析,并根据本实验中测得电池的EQE数据,计算了该电池获得提升所需量子点最低的整体荧光量子效率值为87.8%。     

磁场和量子点尺寸对方形杂质量子点中电子性质的影响

利用二维有限差分方法,计算了含有H_2~+杂质的方形量子点的基态能和杂质束缚能。讨论了磁场和杂质位置对不同尺寸的量子点中电子基态能量和束缚能的影响,得出了方形量子点系统的量子尺寸效应。     

Polyvinyl Alcohol Enhanced Fluorescent Sulfur Quantum Dots for Highly Sensitive Detection of Fe3+ and Temperature in Cells

As a new class of metal-free fluorescent dots, sulfur quantum dots (SQDs) have attracted more and more attention because of their unique properties and promising applications in many fields. However, synthesizing SQDs with high optical stability and stimuli-responsive fluorescence is still in its infancy. Herein, a simple one-pot strategy is reported for preparing polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-capped SQDs from cheap elemental sulfur by employing PVA as ligand. The as-prepared SQDs with size in range of 1.5–5 nm show fine water dispersibility and stability, bright fluorescence, good optical stability, and low cytotoxicity, which make them potential for cell imaging. In addition, the SQDs show sensitive and selective fluorescence quenching behavior toward Fe³⁺ with a detection limit of 92 × 10⁻⁹ m . Meanwhile, the SQDs also present temperature-dependent fluorescence and hold promise for working as a nanothermometer. For the first time, the utilization of SQDs for monitoring of Fe³⁺ and temperature in the interior of cells is confirmed in this study. This work thus opens new opportunities for expanding the application fields of SQDs.     

CdSe/ZnS电化学发光法测定去甲肾上腺素

以巯基丙酸为稳定剂制备了水溶性CdSe/ZnS量子点,并采用滴涂法制备了CdSe/ZnS修饰的金电极（CdSe/ZnS/GE）,研究其电化学发光（ECL）性质,考察了pH、CdSe/ZnS浓度、扫描速度、静置时间等实验条件对ECL强度的影响。结果表明,在碱性溶液中,去甲肾上腺素（NE）在鲁米诺溶液中对CdSe/ZnS的电化学发光信号有明显的增敏作用,由此建立了一种检测去甲肾上腺素的新方法。当去甲肾上腺素的浓度（C_NE）在2.3×10^-5~1.0×10^-8 mol/L范围内时,去甲肾上腺素的浓度与相对电化学发光强度呈现良好的线性关系。线性回归方程为ΔI_ECL=118.788C_NE-15.333（R=0.994 4）,最低检测限（S/N=3）为0.33×10^-8 mol/L。     

Recent Advances of Light Propagation in Surface Plasmon Enhanced Quantum Dot Devices

Surface plasmons are of particular interest recently as their performance is approaching the enhancement of light emission efficiencies, after synthesized close to the vicinity of solid state materials, i.e., semiconductor structure. As other scientific works have been proposed to improve the light-emitting efficiency, such as the use of resonant cavities, photon recycling, and thin-light emitting layers with periodic surface texturing, surface plasmon possesses a promising way to the light enhancement, due to the energy coupling effect between the emitted photons from the semiconductor and the metallic nanoparticles fabricated by nanotechnology. The usual pathway of plasmon enhanced light emitting devices is the use of Ag/Au nanoparticles coating the surface of semiconductor quantum dot (QD) or quantum well (QW) structures. However, apart from efforts to extract as much light as possible from single-driven surface plasmon-QD/QW, it is possible to enhance the light emission rate with double optical-excitations. This approach is based on the quantum interference between the external lasers and the localized quantum light, and promised to stimulate the development of plasmon-enhanced optical sensors. In this review, we describe the quantum properties of light propagation in hybrid nanoparticle and semiconductor materials, i.e., quantum dot or nanomechanical resonator coupled to Ag/Au nanoparticles, driven by two optical fields. Distinct with single excitation, plasmon-assisted complex driven by two optical fields, exhibit specific quantum interference characteristics that can be used as sensitive all-optical devices, such as the slow light switch, nonlinear optical Kerr modulator, and ultra-sensitive mass sensing. We summarize the recent advances of light propagation in surface plasmon-enhanced quantum dot devices, driven by two optical fields, which would stimulate the development of novel optical materials, deeper theoretical insights, innovative new devices, and plasmonic applications with potential for significant technological and societal impact.     

金-二氧化钛（Au-TiO_2）复合薄膜的制备及局域表面等离子体共振（LSPR）效应

利用溶胶凝胶法在玻璃衬底上制备了金-二氧化钛（Au-TiO2）复合纳米薄膜,研究了热处理温度对复合薄膜表面纳米颗粒沉积的影响。利用原子力显微镜对样品进行了形貌表征,结果显示：复合薄膜是由纳米微晶组成的致密膜,温度越高越有利于Au粒子的形成。在550℃的热处理温度下,薄膜表面沉积的纳米微晶的粒径约为100nm。利用紫外-可见分光光度计测量了反射谱线,结果表明：由于局域表面等离子体共振（LSPR）的产生,在不同的热处理温度下,第一个反射峰（短波长处）不发生变化,第二个反射峰（长波长处）发生漂移（红移）。     

Ag纳米颗粒对有机小分子太阳能电池性能的改善

在有机小分子太阳能电池CuPc/C60和TiOPc/C60的阳极ITO表面分别制备了一层Ag纳米颗粒,并采用MoO3作为阳极缓冲层,器件的性能均得到有效改善.Ag纳米颗粒的引入所形成的表面等离子激元共振可显著提高有机光活性层的吸收效率和光生激子的分解效率;而MoO3有效抑制了光生激子在有机/金属界面处发生的猝灭,提高了...     

自组织量子点光致荧光的温度依赖性

自组织量子点光致荧光的温度依赖性研究,对于实现室温下高效的量子点光电器件有着非常重要的意义。而量子点中的载流子动力学过程将决定其光致荧光的温度依赖性。采用稳态速率方程模型模拟了自组织量子点中载流子动力学过程,并且考虑了量子点材料带隙随温度的变化;模拟了不同温度下自组织量子点的光致荧光光谱,并获得了光谱的积分强度、峰值能量及半峰全宽随温度的变化曲线。研究表明:模拟结果与已报道的实验数据符合得很好。由此可知,所采用的模型能够很好地反映自组织量子点中的载流子动力学过程。     

表面等离子体-微腔激元对顶入射有机薄膜太阳能电池光吸收效率的增强

为了提高顶入射有机薄膜太阳能电池(TOSCs)的光吸收效率,我们将周期性矩形光栅结构引入到TOSCs中,分析了具有光栅结构的空气/Ag_1/有源层/Ag_2/空气(IMIMI)结构理想模型中复合表面等离子激元(SPPs)与微腔模式的耦合机制。通过调节光栅周期和有源层厚度,实现了复合SPPs、微腔模式以及有机材料本征吸收3个区域的重合。由于复合SPPs与微腔模式的反交叉耦合作用形成了表面等离子体-微腔激元,其局域场增强作用有效地提高了有源层的光吸收效率,提高了近19%。     

超薄金壳包覆NaYF4:Yb,Er@SiO2纳米结构的可控合成与表面增强上转换荧光

利用原位还原法成功制备了尺寸均一、超薄完整金壳包覆的NaYF₄:Yb,Er@SiO₂@Au（NSA）纳米结构,其XRD、TEM、EDX、HRTEM-HAADF、Mapping及吸收光谱表征结果表明,SiO₂壳及纳米金壳的平均厚度分别约为5 nm和2 nm。在980 nm连续激光激发下,系统研究了核壳结构的上转换荧光强度与氯金酸浓度的依赖关系。稳态光谱结果显示,NSA与仅SiO₂包覆样品（NS）相比Er³⁺的红绿荧光强度均增强了~2.8倍。通过分析上转换荧光动力学过程及利用FDTD方法模拟,讨论了表面等离激元增强上转换荧光的机制。     

Plasmonic Octahedral Gold Nanoparticles of Maximized Near Electromagnetic Fields for Enhancing Catalytic Hole Transfer in Solar Water Splitting

Due to their localized surface plasmon resonances in visible spectrum, noble metal nanostructures have been considered for improving the photoactivity of wide bandgap semiconductors. Improved photoactivity is attributed to localized surface plasmon relaxations such as direct electron injection and resonant energy transfer. However, the details on the plasmonic solar water splitting through near electromagnetic field enhancement have not been fully understood. Here, the authors report that shape‐controlled gold nanoparticles on wide bandgap semiconductors improve the water‐splitting photoactivity of the semiconductors with over‐bandgap photon energies compared to sub‐bandgap photon energies. It is revealed that hot hole injection into the oxygen evolution reaction potential is the rate‐limiting step in plasmonic solar water splitting. The proposed concept of photooxidation catalysts derived from an ensemble of gold nanoparticles having sharp vertices is applicable to various photocatalytic semiconductors and provides a theoretical framework to explore new efficient plasmonic photoelectrodes.     

在低温常压条件下制备一种可用于有机光伏器件空穴传输层的复合膜

空穴传输层是有机光伏器件中的重要组成部分。本文制备了一种可用于空穴传输层的高分子复合膜,制备过程采用了静电自组装(LbL)的方式和低温常压的还原条件。相比于其他制备方式,本文提出的方法不仅厚度可控而且具有更好的电学性能。实验中采用紫外-可见光吸光光度计(UV-Vis spectrometer)对结果进行验证。实验表明,低温常压条件下的还原结果与传统的高温真空条件得到的结果非常接近。低温条件减少了对高分子链的破坏,使得复合膜的空穴迁移率可以由10~(-6) cm~2/Vs提升到10~(-5) cm~2/Vs的数量级。