Improve photocurrent quantum efficiency of carbon nanotube by chemical treatment

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• 作者：Hongguang  ; Wang ; Jinquan  ; Wei  ; ;   ; ^{jqwei@tsinghua.edu.cn} ; Yi  ; Jia ; Zhen  ; Li ; Hongwei  ; Zhu ; Kunlin  ; Wang ; Dehai  ; Wu
• 关键词：Nanostructures ; Chemical techniques ; Visible and ultraviolet spectrometers ; Defects
• 刊名：Materials Chemistry and Physics
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：5 January 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：131
• 期：3
• 页码：680-685
• 全文大小：1138 K

文摘

High photocurrent quantum efficiency (QE) of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is important to their photovoltaic applications. The ability of photocurrent generation of CNTs depends on their band structure and surface state. For given CNTs, it is possible to improve the QE of photocurrent by chemical modification. Here, we study the effects of simple chemical treatment on the QE of CNTs by measuring the photocurrent of macroscopic CNT bundles. The QE of the H₂O₂-treated CNT bundle reaches 5.28 % at 0.1 V bias voltage at a laser (¦Ë = 473 nm) illumination, which is 85 % higher than that of the pristine sample. But the QE of the CNTs treated in concentrated HNO₃ is lower than that of the pristine sample. It shows that moderate chemical treatment can enhance the photocurrent QE and excessive chemical treatment will decrease the QE because of introducing lots of structural defects.