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Nano Research 2016, 9(5): 1470-1479 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-016-1043-8
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Nanoscale color sensors made on semiconducting multi-wall carbon nanotubes

Show Author's Information Nan Wei1,  Huixin Huang1,2,  Yang Liu1,2,  Leijing Yang1,  Fanglin Wang1,  Huanhuan Xie3,  Yingying Zhang3,  Fei Wei3,  Sheng Wang1( ),  Lianmao Peng1( )
Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices and Department of ElectronicsPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary StudiesPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and TechnologyDepartment of Chemical EngineeringTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084China
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carbon nanotubes, optoelectronic devices, color sensors, barrier-free bipolar diodes
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Sub-micron color sensors are developed, using carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The color sensor consists of an array of two photodiodes with different spectral responses, fabricated using controlled electric peeling-off and doping-free techniques on a single semiconducting double-wall CNT. The CNT photodiodes exhibit intrinsic broad spectral responses from 640 to 2, 100 nm, large linear dynamic ranges of over 60 dB, and sub-micron pixel size. This method explores the unique properties of multi-wall CNTs, and may be readily used for large-scale fabrication of high performance color sensor arrays, when arrays of parallel multi-wall CNTs become available.


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Nanoscale color sensors made on semiconducting multi-wall carbon nanotubes

Show Author's information Nan Wei1, Huixin Huang1,2, Yang Liu1,2, Leijing Yang1, Fanglin Wang1, Huanhuan Xie3, Yingying Zhang3, Fei Wei3, Sheng Wang1( ), Lianmao Peng1( )
Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices and Department of ElectronicsPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary StudiesPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and TechnologyDepartment of Chemical EngineeringTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084China

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Sub-micron color sensors are developed, using carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The color sensor consists of an array of two photodiodes with different spectral responses, fabricated using controlled electric peeling-off and doping-free techniques on a single semiconducting double-wall CNT. The CNT photodiodes exhibit intrinsic broad spectral responses from 640 to 2, 100 nm, large linear dynamic ranges of over 60 dB, and sub-micron pixel size. This method explores the unique properties of multi-wall CNTs, and may be readily used for large-scale fabrication of high performance color sensor arrays, when arrays of parallel multi-wall CNTs become available.

Keywords: carbon nanotubes, optoelectronic devices, color sensors, barrier-free bipolar diodes

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Received: 28 December 2015
Revised: 30 January 2016
Accepted: 03 February 2016
Published: 29 September 2016
Issue date: May 2016

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61321001, 61427901-002, 61390504 and 61271051), and Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (No. Z151100003315009).

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