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Title: Colloidal quantum dot based infrared detectors: extending to the mid-infrared and moving from the lab to the field

Abstract

Quantum dots (QDs) that absorb in the mid-wave infrared (MWIR) regime (3–5 μm) have recently generated significant interest as possible detector materials for MWIR cameras, with promises to reduce materials and device fabrication costs and potentially increase device operating temperatures. However, these materials have been primarily explored in single pixel devices – not multi-pixel cameras – and their current performance lags behind that of commercially available MWIR cameras based on single crystalline materials. To realize the potential of QD MWIR photodetectors with imaging capabilities, improvements are needed in the quality of the MWIR-absorbing QD materials, ligands dictating inter-QD charge transport, ordering of QD films, device architectures, and scalability of these methods to larger areas. With three families of QDs being researched – lead-, silver-, and mercury-based chalcogenides – as well as a multitude of possible capping ligands and film deposition techniques, the experimental phase space for MWIR QDs is vast. Here, we provide a roadmap, considering the pros and cons of various film deposition and ligand exchange techniques, as well as reintroduce lessons learned over years of research on QD film formation. We also extracted and created a database of reported quantum dot photodetectors’ performance and fabrication methods and havemore » developed an interactive data visualization dashboard for this database, which provides researchers in the field a quick snapshot of the existing state of the art. Finally, we outline figures of merit and information that should be presented in papers moving forward which would help to clarify the reported results, as well as offer ideas for future steps. We provide a database visualization of the QD photodetector literature at https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/tom.nakotte/viz/IRQDphotodetectors_16384709473480/Dashboard1#1.« less

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
OSTI Identifier:
1874544
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1836163
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-828879
Journal ID: ISSN 2050-7526; 1044140
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2050-7526
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Nakotte, Tom, Munyan, Simon G., Murphy, John W., Hawks, Steven A., Kang, ShinYoung, Han, Jinkyu, and Hiszpanski, Anna M. Colloidal quantum dot based infrared detectors: extending to the mid-infrared and moving from the lab to the field. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1039/d1tc05359k.
Nakotte, Tom, Munyan, Simon G., Murphy, John W., Hawks, Steven A., Kang, ShinYoung, Han, Jinkyu, & Hiszpanski, Anna M. Colloidal quantum dot based infrared detectors: extending to the mid-infrared and moving from the lab to the field. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1tc05359k
Nakotte, Tom, Munyan, Simon G., Murphy, John W., Hawks, Steven A., Kang, ShinYoung, Han, Jinkyu, and Hiszpanski, Anna M. Wed . "Colloidal quantum dot based infrared detectors: extending to the mid-infrared and moving from the lab to the field". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1tc05359k. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1874544.
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title = {Colloidal quantum dot based infrared detectors: extending to the mid-infrared and moving from the lab to the field},
author = {Nakotte, Tom and Munyan, Simon G. and Murphy, John W. and Hawks, Steven A. and Kang, ShinYoung and Han, Jinkyu and Hiszpanski, Anna M.},
abstractNote = {Quantum dots (QDs) that absorb in the mid-wave infrared (MWIR) regime (3–5 μm) have recently generated significant interest as possible detector materials for MWIR cameras, with promises to reduce materials and device fabrication costs and potentially increase device operating temperatures. However, these materials have been primarily explored in single pixel devices – not multi-pixel cameras – and their current performance lags behind that of commercially available MWIR cameras based on single crystalline materials. To realize the potential of QD MWIR photodetectors with imaging capabilities, improvements are needed in the quality of the MWIR-absorbing QD materials, ligands dictating inter-QD charge transport, ordering of QD films, device architectures, and scalability of these methods to larger areas. With three families of QDs being researched – lead-, silver-, and mercury-based chalcogenides – as well as a multitude of possible capping ligands and film deposition techniques, the experimental phase space for MWIR QDs is vast. Here, we provide a roadmap, considering the pros and cons of various film deposition and ligand exchange techniques, as well as reintroduce lessons learned over years of research on QD film formation. We also extracted and created a database of reported quantum dot photodetectors’ performance and fabrication methods and have developed an interactive data visualization dashboard for this database, which provides researchers in the field a quick snapshot of the existing state of the art. Finally, we outline figures of merit and information that should be presented in papers moving forward which would help to clarify the reported results, as well as offer ideas for future steps. We provide a database visualization of the QD photodetector literature at https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/tom.nakotte/viz/IRQDphotodetectors_16384709473480/Dashboard1#1.},
doi = {10.1039/d1tc05359k},
journal = {Journal of Materials Chemistry C},
number = 3,
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 08 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Wed Dec 08 00:00:00 EST 2021}
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  • Böberl, M.; Kovalenko, M. V.; Gamerith, S.
  • Advanced Materials, Vol. 19, Issue 21
  • DOI: 10.1002/adma.200700111

Noise performance of PbS colloidal quantum dot photodetectors
journal, November 2017

  • De Iacovo, A.; Venettacci, C.; Colace, L.
  • Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 111, Issue 21
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.5005805