We have prepared electrodes for photo-electro-chemical cells which have enabled to pre-charge colloidal quantum dots in well-controlled fashion. Femtosecond transient absorption measurements were carried out revealing clear speed-up of the photo-induced charge carrier dynamics, particularly the recombination. Such studies allow to understand the behavior of light harvesting materials in operational conditions of optoelectronic devices giving new recipes for improvements.
MoOx/n-CdTe photosensitive heterostructures were prepared by the deposition of molybdenum oxide thin films onto three different n-type CdTe substrates (ρ1=0.4 Ω⋅cm, ρ2=10 Ω⋅cm, ρ3=40 Ω⋅cm) by DC reactive magnetron sputtering. The height of the potential barrier and series resistance of the MoOx/CdTe heterojunctions were investigated. The dominating current transport mechanisms through the heterojunctions were determined at forward and reverse biases.
The singlet excitation transfer and trapping kinetics in photosynthetic membranes in case of low excitation intensities is studied by spectrally selective picosecond-time- domain fluorescence spectroscopy and by numerical integration of an appropriate system of equations. The essential features of our models are spectral heterogeneity of the light- harvesting antenna, inclusion of temperature effects, nonabsolute excitation traps, correlation between spectral and spatial parmeters. A reasonably good agreement between theoretical and experimental fluorescence decay kinetics for several purple photosynthetic bacteria has been achieved. This comparison gives several interesting numerical constants characterizing microscopic excitation transfer between different light-harvesting-antenna pigment-protein complexes towards the reaction centres. Some aspects of the experiment are also discussed.
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