Publications related to Diameter Effect on the Sidewall Functionalization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Addition of Dichlorocarbene

Semiconductor-based device architectures in multimaterial fibers

Semiconductor materials have given rise to today's digital technology and consumer electronics. Widespread adoption is closely linked to the ability to process and integrate them in devices at scale. Where flexibility and large surfaces are required, such ...

EPFL2023

Interface connection of functionalized carbon nanotubes for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Ruiyuan Hu, Jianxing Xia

The ionic defects of hetero-junction interfaces always attract and trap carriers via surface electrostatic forces, which are crucial for the efficiency and intrinsic stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Plasmon-induced near-infrared fluorescence enhancement of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Giulia Tagliabue, Amirmostafa Amirjani, Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Sayyed Hashem Sajjadi, Shang-Jung Wu, Alessandra Antonucci, Theodoros Tsoulos

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) emit near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence that is ideal for optical sensing. However, the low quantum yields diminish the sensor’s signal-to-noise ratio and limits the penetration depths for in vivo measurements. In this ...

2022

Directed evolution of DNA-wrapped single-walled carbon nanotube complexes for optical sensing

Benjamin Paul Johanès Gabriel Lambert

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have garnered significant interest for their applications in optical biosensing. SWCNTs exhibit a sensitive and photostable fluorescence in the near-infrared (NIR) range, allowing for the continuous monitoring of tar ...

EPFL2021

Incidence of Quantum Confinement on Dark Triplet Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes

Ferenc Simon

The photophysics of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) is intensively studied due to their potential application in light harvesting and optoelectronics. Excited states of SWCNTs form strongly bound electron-hole pairs, excitons, of which only singlet e ...

2020

Site-Specific Protein Conjugation onto Fluorescent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Vitalijs Zubkovs, Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Shang-Jung Wu, Nils Schürgers

Semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) are among the few photostable optical emitters that are ideal for sensing, imaging, drug delivery, and monitoring of protein activity. These applications often require strategies for immobilizing prote ...

2020

Non-covalent Methods of Engineering Optical Sensors Based on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Alice Judith Gillen

Optical sensors based on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) demonstrate tradeoffs that limit their use in in vivo and in vitro environments. Sensor characteristics are primarily governed by the non-covalent wrapping used to suspend the hydrophobic SWC ...

2019

Thermal Drawing of Polymer Nano-composites: Fluid Dynamic Analysis and Application to Novel Functional Fibers

Alexis Gérald Page

The thermal drawing process is emerging as a versatile platform for the development of multimaterial fiber devices and advanced textiles for sensing, energy harvesting or medical applications, owing to the possibility to integrate insulators, conductors an ...

EPFL2019

Semiconducting van der Waals Interfaces as Artificial Semiconductors

Helmuth Berger, Evgeniy Ponomarev

Recent technical progress demonstrates the possibility of stacking together virtually any combination of atomically thin crystals of van der Waals bonded compounds to form new types of heterostructures and interfaces. As a result, there is the need to unde ...

2018

Low-Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition of Crystalline and Photoactive Ultrathin Hematite Films for Solar Water Splitting

Michael Graetzel, Marcel Roland Schreier, Ludmilla Steier, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Jingshan Luo

We developed a low-temperature atomic layer deposition route to deposit phase pure and crystalline hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) films at 230 degrees C without the need for postannealing. Homogenous and conformal deposition with good aspect ratio coverage was dem ...

American Chemical Society2015

Exciton confinement and trapping dynamics in double-graded-bandgap quantum nanowires

Elyahou Kapon, Alok Rudra, Pascal Gallo, Justyna Szeszko

We fabricate and study quantum dot structures incorporating quasi-one-dimensional excited states. The structures are realized by graded bandgap GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wires self-formed inside inverted tetrahedral pyramids. The ground state transitions exhibit ...

American Institute of Physics2012

Scanning photocurrent microscopy of carbon nanostructures

In this thesis, the electronic structures of low-dimensional carbon allotropes have been studied. In particular, the spatially-resolved photocurrent responses of devices comprising carbon nanostructures were investigated through scanning photocurrent micro ...

EPFL2009

A facile strategy for preparation of fluorescent SWNT complexes with high quantum yields based on ion exchange

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei

The fluorescent imidazolium salt (1,3-bis(9-anthracenylmethyl)imidazolium chloride, [bamim]Cl) has been grafted onto the surfaces of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) using an ion exchange strategy based on metathesis of the K+ ion in CO2K derivatized ...

2008

Picosecond time resolved cathodoluminescence to study semiconductor materials and heterostructures

Samuel Sonderegger

A large number of characterization tools for semiconductor based heterostructures are available nowadays. Most of these techniques deliver high temporal resolution (down to hundreds of femtoseconds) or good spatial resolution (down to sub nanometer resolut ...

EPFL2007

Analyse quantitative des intensités diffractées en microscopie électronique à transmission : application à la caractérisation locale de la composition chimique et des contraintes dans les nanostructures quantiques semi-conductrices d'InGaAs/GaAs

The fabrication of nanostructures using III-V semiconductors results in materials with different physical properties than the bulk materials. Their optical and electronic properties are tailored and developed on a large scale for the fabrication of optical ...

EPFL2005