Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2015-07-14

Ultrafast charge carrier relaxation and charge transfer processes in CdS/CdTe thin films.

Bill Pandit, Ruvini Dharmadasa, I M Dharmadasa, Thad Druffel, Jinjun Liu

Index: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17 , 16760-6, (2015)

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Abstract

Ultrafast transient absorption pump-probe spectroscopy (TAPPS) has been employed to investigate charge carrier relaxation in cadmium sulfide/cadmium telluride (CdS/CdTe) nanoparticle (NP)-based thin films and electron transfer (ET) processes between CdTe and CdS. Effects of post-growth annealing treatments to ET processes have been investigated by carrying out TAPPS experiments on three CdS/CdTe samples: as deposited, heat treated, and CdCl2 treated. Clear evidence of ET process in the treated thin films has been observed by comparing transient absorption (TA) spectra of CdS/CdTe thin films to those of CdS and CdTe. Quantitative comparison between ultrafast kinetics at different probe wavelengths unravels the ET processes and enables determination of its rate constants. Implication of the photoinduced dynamics to photovoltaic devices is discussed.

Related Compounds

  • Tellurium dioxide
  • Cadmium chloride
  • cadmium sulfate

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