High-performance carbon nanotube electronic ratchets
Abstract
The rapid advancements in low-power portable/wearable electronic devices require concurrent development of technologies that can provide power without the need for bulky, heavy battery storage. Electronic ratchets, asymmetric transistor-based devices that can convert AC signals or electronic noise into DC power, have been proposed as one solution to this growing need. Here, the recent demonstration of conjugated polymer-based electronic ratchets offers a route toward lightweight, flexible power sources for portable applications. Here we demonstrate the fabrication of the first electronic ratchets where the active channel component consists of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (s-SWCNTs), which can transform electronic noise or AC signals to a stable DC current with higher output power (up to ca. 14 mW for a chemically doped device) than their polymer-based analogs. We also show that patterning of the dopant profile in the s-SWCNT channel enables reasonable power conversion performance (ca. 3.5 mW) with improved stability relative to homogeneously doped devices. Our findings demonstrate the promise for s-SWCNT electronic ratchets as energy harvesting devices for portable, low-power applications.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1820572
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1818534
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5900-79540
Journal ID: ISSN 1754-5692; MainId:33766;UUID:cbf97988-8a67-4fe5-b0c9-555d9639a835;MainAdminID:59598
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energy & Environmental Science
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 2021; Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 1754-5692
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- ENGINEERING,MATERIALS SCIENCE,NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; carbon nanotubes; charge-carrier doping; electronic ratchet; portable energy harvesting
Citation Formats
Hao, Ji, Nanayakkara, Sanjini U., Tervo, Eric J., Blackburn, Jeffrey L., and Ferguson, Andrew J. High-performance carbon nanotube electronic ratchets. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1039/d1ee02048j.
Hao, Ji, Nanayakkara, Sanjini U., Tervo, Eric J., Blackburn, Jeffrey L., & Ferguson, Andrew J. High-performance carbon nanotube electronic ratchets. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ee02048j
Hao, Ji, Nanayakkara, Sanjini U., Tervo, Eric J., Blackburn, Jeffrey L., and Ferguson, Andrew J. Thu .
"High-performance carbon nanotube electronic ratchets". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ee02048j. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1820572.
@article{osti_1820572,
title = {High-performance carbon nanotube electronic ratchets},
author = {Hao, Ji and Nanayakkara, Sanjini U. and Tervo, Eric J. and Blackburn, Jeffrey L. and Ferguson, Andrew J.},
abstractNote = {The rapid advancements in low-power portable/wearable electronic devices require concurrent development of technologies that can provide power without the need for bulky, heavy battery storage. Electronic ratchets, asymmetric transistor-based devices that can convert AC signals or electronic noise into DC power, have been proposed as one solution to this growing need. Here, the recent demonstration of conjugated polymer-based electronic ratchets offers a route toward lightweight, flexible power sources for portable applications. Here we demonstrate the fabrication of the first electronic ratchets where the active channel component consists of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (s-SWCNTs), which can transform electronic noise or AC signals to a stable DC current with higher output power (up to ca. 14 mW for a chemically doped device) than their polymer-based analogs. We also show that patterning of the dopant profile in the s-SWCNT channel enables reasonable power conversion performance (ca. 3.5 mW) with improved stability relative to homogeneously doped devices. Our findings demonstrate the promise for s-SWCNT electronic ratchets as energy harvesting devices for portable, low-power applications.},
doi = {10.1039/d1ee02048j},
journal = {Energy & Environmental Science},
number = 14,
volume = 2021,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Thu Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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