Efficient photoinduced charge accumulation in reduced graphene oxide coupled with titania nanosheets to show highly enhanced and persistent conductance

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 11436-11443

  Cai, Xingke ^a,b   Sakai, Nobuyuki ^a   Ozawa, Tadashi C ^a   Funatsu, Asami ^a   Ma, Renzhi ^a   Ebina, Yasuo ^a   Sasaki, Takayoshi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

charge accumulation; photomodulation; reduced graphene oxide; superlattice; titania nanosheet

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MOLECULES; NANOSHEETS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SUPERLATTICES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TITANIUM OXIDES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CHARGE ACCUMULATION; ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTO MODULATION; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); TITANIA NANOSHEET;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84930654133     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b02107     Document Type: Article

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