Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Nanowire Heterojunction Solar Cells with Gas-Dependent Photovoltaic Performances and Their Application in Self-Powered NO(2) Detecting

A multifunctional device combining photovoltaic conversion and toxic gas sensitivity is reported. In this device, carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes are used to cover onto silicon nanowire (SiNW) arrays to form heterojunction. The porous structure and large specific surface area in the heterojunction s...

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Autores principales: Jia, Yi, Zhang, Zexia, Xiao, Lin, Lv, Ruitao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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Nano Express
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4907969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27299654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11671-016-1514-6
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author Jia, Yi
Zhang, Zexia
Xiao, Lin
Lv, Ruitao
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Zhang, Zexia
Xiao, Lin
Lv, Ruitao
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description A multifunctional device combining photovoltaic conversion and toxic gas sensitivity is reported. In this device, carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes are used to cover onto silicon nanowire (SiNW) arrays to form heterojunction. The porous structure and large specific surface area in the heterojunction structure are both benefits for gas adsorption. In virtue of these merits, gas doping is a feasible method to improve cell’s performance and the device can also work as a self-powered gas sensor beyond a solar cell. It shows a significant improvement in cell efficiency (more than 200 times) after NO(2) molecules doping (device working as a solar cell) and a fast, reversible response property for NO(2) detection (device working as a gas sensor). Such multifunctional CNT-SiNW structure can be expected to open a new avenue for developing self-powered, efficient toxic gas-sensing devices in the future. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s11671-016-1514-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-49079692016-07-01 Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Nanowire Heterojunction Solar Cells with Gas-Dependent Photovoltaic Performances and Their Application in Self-Powered NO(2) Detecting Jia, Yi Zhang, Zexia Xiao, Lin Lv, Ruitao Nanoscale Res Lett Nano Express A multifunctional device combining photovoltaic conversion and toxic gas sensitivity is reported. In this device, carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes are used to cover onto silicon nanowire (SiNW) arrays to form heterojunction. The porous structure and large specific surface area in the heterojunction structure are both benefits for gas adsorption. In virtue of these merits, gas doping is a feasible method to improve cell’s performance and the device can also work as a self-powered gas sensor beyond a solar cell. It shows a significant improvement in cell efficiency (more than 200 times) after NO(2) molecules doping (device working as a solar cell) and a fast, reversible response property for NO(2) detection (device working as a gas sensor). Such multifunctional CNT-SiNW structure can be expected to open a new avenue for developing self-powered, efficient toxic gas-sensing devices in the future. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s11671-016-1514-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2016-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4907969/ /pubmed/27299654 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11671-016-1514-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
spellingShingle Nano Express
Jia, Yi
Zhang, Zexia
Xiao, Lin
Lv, Ruitao
Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Nanowire Heterojunction Solar Cells with Gas-Dependent Photovoltaic Performances and Their Application in Self-Powered NO(2) Detecting
title Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Nanowire Heterojunction Solar Cells with Gas-Dependent Photovoltaic Performances and Their Application in Self-Powered NO(2) Detecting
title_full Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Nanowire Heterojunction Solar Cells with Gas-Dependent Photovoltaic Performances and Their Application in Self-Powered NO(2) Detecting
title_fullStr Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Nanowire Heterojunction Solar Cells with Gas-Dependent Photovoltaic Performances and Their Application in Self-Powered NO(2) Detecting
title_full_unstemmed Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Nanowire Heterojunction Solar Cells with Gas-Dependent Photovoltaic Performances and Their Application in Self-Powered NO(2) Detecting
title_short Carbon Nanotube-Silicon Nanowire Heterojunction Solar Cells with Gas-Dependent Photovoltaic Performances and Their Application in Self-Powered NO(2) Detecting
title_sort carbon nanotube-silicon nanowire heterojunction solar cells with gas-dependent photovoltaic performances and their application in self-powered no(2) detecting
topic Nano Express
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4907969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27299654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11671-016-1514-6
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