Charge injection and trapping in TiO2 nanoparticles decorated silicon nanowires arrays

Charge injection and trapping in TiO2 nanoparticles decorated silicon nanowires arrays

Fast Charge-Carrier Trapping in TiO2 Nanotubes

One-dimensional semiconductors such as nanowires and nanotubes are attractive materials for incorporation in photovoltaic devices as they potentially offer short percolation pathways to charge-collecting contacts. We report the observation of freeelectron lifetimes in TiO2 nanotubes of the order of tens of picoseconds. These lifetimes are surprisingly short compared to those determined in films...

Optoelectronic Trapping of Cells, Nanowires, and Nanoparticles

The principle and recent experimental results of optoelectronic tweezers (OET) will be presented. Based on lightinduced dielectrophoresis, OET can trap and sort colloidal particles, biological cells, nanowires and nanoparticles using a digital light projector. ©2009 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (170.4520) Optical confinement and manipulation; (350.4855) Optical tweezers or optical man...

Catalytic Activity of Silicon Nanowires Decorated with Gold and Copper Nanoparticles Deposited by Pulsed Laser Ablation

Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) decorated by pulsed laser ablation with gold or copper nanoparticles (labeled as AuNPs@SiNWs and CuNPs@SiNWs) were investigated for their catalytic properties. Results demonstrated high catalytic performances in the Caryl-N couplings and subsequent carbonylations for gold and copper catalysts, respectively, that have no precedents in the literature. The excellent activ...

Enhanced photoelectrochemical properties of TiO2 nanorod arrays decorated with CdS nanoparticles

TiO2 nanorod arrays (TiO2 NRAs) sensitized with CdS nanoparticles were fabricated via successive ion layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR), and TiO2 NRAs were obtained by oxidizing Ti NRAs obtained through oblique angle deposition. The TiO2 NRAs decorated with CdS nanoparticles exhibited excellent photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic properties under visible light, and the one decorated with...