Bulk heterojunction organic solar cells based on small molecules are often fabricated by the co-deposition of donor and accepter materials on substrates placed horizontally. An intimate blend of donor and acceptor molecules is the common product in as-prepared samples. Using metal phthalocyanine as the donor and fullerene as the acceptor, we tilt the substrate to deposit the active layer. Both ...

We investigated the trap-mediated electronic transport properties of pentacene/molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) p-n heterojunction devices. We observed that the hybrid p-n heterojunctions were gate-tunable and were strongly affected by trap-assisted tunnelling through the van der Waals gap at the heterojunction interfaces between MoS2 and pentacene. The pentacene/MoS2 p-n heterojunction diodes had ...

In this paper, we have presented a heterojunction gate all around nanowiretunneling field effect transistor (GAA NW TFET) and have explained its characteristicsin details. The proposed device has been structured using Germanium for source regionand Silicon for channel and drain regions. Kane's band-to-band tunneling model hasbeen used to account for the amount of band-to...

The photoresponse of reversed bilayer organic photovoltaic device based on pentacene and C60 is examined, and the mechanism of photocurrent generation is shown to be different to that in conventional heterojunction devices, with free charge carriers generated at the electrode-organic interfaces rather than the organic heterojunction. This hypothesis is tested with silver nanoclusters incorporat...

A pentacene-C60 bilayer heterojunction organic photovoltaic device with interpenetrating donor-acceptor interface was fabricated by nanoimprinting the pentacene layer prior to C60 deposition. An amorphous silicon substrate nanostructured using an excimer laser was imprinted onto the pentacene layer at high temperature and pressure, using a nanoimprinting lithography system to form a textured pe...

A density functional theory approach is employed to investigate poly-3-hexylthiophene (P3HT) interfaced with both a semiconducting and metallic carbon nanotube (CNT). For the semiconducting CNT, a type-II heterojunction can form, making such an interface desirable as a photovoltaic heterojunction. In contrast, with the metallic CNT, substantial charge redistribution occurs and the interaction i...

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A low-temperature (LT) grown InAs epi-layer has been applied as the gate to the dual-material structure of lattice-matched InGaP on GaAs, to make a high-temperature power rectifier. The LT molecular beam epitaxy technique enables the formation of an abrupt interface between InAs and InGaP. This heterojunction rectifier utilises the strong thermal stability of the InAs=InGaP heterojunction and t...

In this study, two layers: i-ZnO nanorods and p-Cu2O were fabricated by electrochemical deposition. The fabricating process was the initial formation of ZnO nanorods layer on the n-IGZO thin film which was prepared by sputtering method, then a p-Cu2O layer was deposited on top of rods to form the p-Cu2O/i-ZnO nanorods/n-ZnO heterojunction. The XRD, SEM, UV-VIS, I-V characteristics methods were ...

We use hybrid density functional calculations to find that the monolayer silicane (SiH) and the anatase TiO2(101) composite (i.e. the SiH/TiO2 heterojunction) is a promising TiO2-based photocatalyst under visible light. The band gap of the SiH/TiO2(101) heterojunction is 2.082 eV, which is an ideal material for the visible-light photoexcitation of electron-hole pairs. Furthermore, the SiH/TiO2(...