Near-infrared imaging with quantum-dot-sensitized organic photodiodes

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 332-336

  Rauch, Tobias ^a   Böberl, Michaela ^a,b,e   Tedde, Sandro F ^a   Fürst, Jens ^a,e   Kovalenko, Maksym V ^c   Hesser, Günter ^b   Lemmer, Uli ^d   Heiss, Wolfgang ^c   Hayden, Oliver ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONICS   (Austria)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^e SIEMENS AG ÖSTERREICH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE-MATRIX BACKPLANES; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HYBRID BULK HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOCRYSTALLINE QUANTUM DOTS; NEAR-INFRARED IMAGING; ORGANIC BULK HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC/INORGANIC HYBRIDS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING; PHOTODIODES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 67049151951     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.72     Document Type: Article

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