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Nanoscale color sensors made on semiconducting multi-wall carbon nanotubes

Nan Wei1, Huixin Huang1,2, Yang Liu1,2, Leijing Yang1, Fanglin Wang1, Huanhuan Xie3, Yingying Zhang3, Fei Wei3, Sheng Wang1( ), Lianmao Peng1( )
Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices and Department of ElectronicsPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary StudiesPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and TechnologyDepartment of Chemical EngineeringTsinghua UniversityBeijing100084China
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Abstract

Sub-micron color sensors are developed, using carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The color sensor consists of an array of two photodiodes with different spectral responses, fabricated using controlled electric peeling-off and doping-free techniques on a single semiconducting double-wall CNT. The CNT photodiodes exhibit intrinsic broad spectral responses from 640 to 2, 100 nm, large linear dynamic ranges of over 60 dB, and sub-micron pixel size. This method explores the unique properties of multi-wall CNTs, and may be readily used for large-scale fabrication of high performance color sensor arrays, when arrays of parallel multi-wall CNTs become available.

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color sensorscarbon nanotubesoptoelectronic devicesbarrier-free bipolar diodes

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Nano Research
Volume 9 Issue 5,
May 2016
Pages 1470-1479
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-016-1043-8
Cite this article:
Wei N, Huang H, Liu Y, et al. Nanoscale color sensors made on semiconducting multi-wall carbon nanotubes. Nano Research, 2016, 9(5): 1470-1479. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-016-1043-8

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Received: 28 December 2015
Revised: 30 January 2016
Accepted: 03 February 2016
Published: 29 September 2016
© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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