Size-dependent electron transfer from PbSe quantum dots to SnO 2 monitored by picosecond terahertz spectroscopy

Nano Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5234-5239

  Cánovas, Enrique ^a   Moll, Puck ^a   Jensen, Søren A ^a   Gao, Yunan ^b,c   Houtepen, Arjan J ^b   Siebbeles, Laurens D A ^b   Kinge, Sachin ^d   Bonn, M ^a,e  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d Materials Research and Development   (Belgium)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

electron transfer; Marcus theory; PbSe QDs; QD sensitized solar cell; THz spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DEVICE DESIGN; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTRON TRANSFER RATES; FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSE; INJECTION TIME; MARCUS THEORY; MESOPOROUS; PBSE QDS; PICOSECOND TIME; PICOSECONDS; THZ SPECTROSCOPY; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-SCALES;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; LASER EXCITATION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 83655190567     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl202550v     Document Type: Article

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