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Title: Organic Dye Graphene Hybrid Structures with Spectral Color Selectivity

Abstract

This study characterizes a hybrid structure formed between graphene and organic dye molecules for use in photodetectors with spectral color selectivity. Rhodamine‐based organic dye molecules with red, green, or blue light absorption profiles are deposited onto a graphene surface by dip‐coating. UV–vis absorption spectroscopy, charge transport measurements, and density functional theory based calculations reveal that the photoresponses of the dye graphene hybrid films are governed by the light absorption of the dye molecules and also by the photo‐excited‐charge‐transfer‐induced photocurrent gain. The hybrid films respond only to photons with an energy exceeding the band gap of the immobilized dye. Dye‐Graphene charge transfer is affected by the distance and direction of the dipole moment between the two layers. The resulting hybrid films exhibit spectral color selectivities with responsivities of ≈10 3 A W −1 and specific detectivities of ≈10 10 Jones. This study demonstrates the successful operation of photodetectors with a full‐color optical bandwidth using hybrid graphene structures coated with a mixture of dyes. The strategy of building a simple hybrid photodetector can further offer many opportunities to be also tuned for other optical functionalities using a variety of commercially available dye molecules.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [4];  [2];  [5]
  1. SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT) Sungkyunkwan University Suwon 440‐746 Korea
  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University 2220 Campus Drive Evanston IL 60208 USA
  3. Department of Chemical Engineering Soongsil University Seoul 156‐743 Korea
  4. Division of Nano &, Energy Convergence Research Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) Daegu 711‐873 Korea
  5. SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT) Sungkyunkwan University Suwon 440‐746 Korea, School of Chemical Engineering Sungkyunkwan University Suwon 440‐746 Korea
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1401456
Grant/Contract Number:  
DE‐FG02‐07ER46433
Resource Type:
Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Functional Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Advanced Functional Materials Journal Volume: 26 Journal Issue: 36; Journal ID: ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher:
Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Gim, Yu Seong, Lee, Youngbin, Kim, Soo, Hao, Shiqiang, Kang, Moon Sung, Yoo, Won Jong, Kim, Hyunmin, Wolverton, Chris, and Cho, Jeong Ho. Organic Dye Graphene Hybrid Structures with Spectral Color Selectivity. Germany: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1002/adfm.201601200.
Gim, Yu Seong, Lee, Youngbin, Kim, Soo, Hao, Shiqiang, Kang, Moon Sung, Yoo, Won Jong, Kim, Hyunmin, Wolverton, Chris, & Cho, Jeong Ho. Organic Dye Graphene Hybrid Structures with Spectral Color Selectivity. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201601200
Gim, Yu Seong, Lee, Youngbin, Kim, Soo, Hao, Shiqiang, Kang, Moon Sung, Yoo, Won Jong, Kim, Hyunmin, Wolverton, Chris, and Cho, Jeong Ho. Mon . "Organic Dye Graphene Hybrid Structures with Spectral Color Selectivity". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201601200.
@article{osti_1401456,
title = {Organic Dye Graphene Hybrid Structures with Spectral Color Selectivity},
author = {Gim, Yu Seong and Lee, Youngbin and Kim, Soo and Hao, Shiqiang and Kang, Moon Sung and Yoo, Won Jong and Kim, Hyunmin and Wolverton, Chris and Cho, Jeong Ho},
abstractNote = {This study characterizes a hybrid structure formed between graphene and organic dye molecules for use in photodetectors with spectral color selectivity. Rhodamine‐based organic dye molecules with red, green, or blue light absorption profiles are deposited onto a graphene surface by dip‐coating. UV–vis absorption spectroscopy, charge transport measurements, and density functional theory based calculations reveal that the photoresponses of the dye graphene hybrid films are governed by the light absorption of the dye molecules and also by the photo‐excited‐charge‐transfer‐induced photocurrent gain. The hybrid films respond only to photons with an energy exceeding the band gap of the immobilized dye. Dye‐Graphene charge transfer is affected by the distance and direction of the dipole moment between the two layers. The resulting hybrid films exhibit spectral color selectivities with responsivities of ≈10 3 A W −1 and specific detectivities of ≈10 10 Jones. This study demonstrates the successful operation of photodetectors with a full‐color optical bandwidth using hybrid graphene structures coated with a mixture of dyes. The strategy of building a simple hybrid photodetector can further offer many opportunities to be also tuned for other optical functionalities using a variety of commercially available dye molecules.},
doi = {10.1002/adfm.201601200},
journal = {Advanced Functional Materials},
number = 36,
volume = 26,
place = {Germany},
year = {Mon Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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