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Copyright 2004 by Marcel Dekker, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Figure 16 Photocurrent action spectra for ITO/CdSe/Al sandwich structures with200-nm-thick layers of 2.7-nm-diameter nanocrystals (triangles) and 4.5-nm-diameternanocrystals (circles). Also plotted is the fraction of incident light that isabsorbed in each film for the small (solid line) and large (dashed line) nanocrystals,including a simple correction for interference effects.illuminated through the ITO contact. Leatherdale et al. employed Au barelectrodes, with spacings of 1 to 20 Am. In our devices, we were able tomeasure external quantum efficiencies (collected charges/incident photons) of1–10% at room temperature under short-circuit conditions. In the shortcircuitmode, charges are collected <strong>by</strong> the built-in field that arises from thework-function difference between the A1 and ITO contacts. This amounts tofields of f310 6 V/m in our devices. On the other hand, Leatherdale et al.measured quantum efficiencies on the order of 10 4 electrons/photon, atapplied fields of f10 7 V/m. Because the fields are similar between the twoexperiments, we would expect similar charge generation rates, and the differentquantum efficiencies are therefore surprising. One possibility is that themismatch results from different recombination loss rates caused <strong>by</strong> thediffering distances traveled <strong>by</strong> carriers in each experiment.Finally, in both sets of experiments, it is found that the photocurrentincreases linearly with illumination intensity. This is consistent with a singlephotonmechanism for carrier generation and with first-order recombinationkinetics. This is the expected behavior if dissociation of the exciton is the ratelimitingstep, as most electron–hole pairs will recombine while still correlated(geminate recombination). First-order kinetics are also expected if recombinationis dominated <strong>by</strong> a high density of trap sites in the sample [107].One particularly unusual electrical property of CdSe quantum-dot filmsis the time and history dependence of their current–voltage characteristics.<strong>Copyright</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>by</strong> <strong>Marcel</strong> <strong>Dekker</strong>, <strong>Inc</strong>. <strong>All</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Reserved</strong>.

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