TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward self-powered photodetection enabled by triboelectric nanogenerators
AU - Wen, Zhen
AU - Fu, Jingjing
AU - Han, Lei
AU - Liu, Yina
AU - Peng, Mingfa
AU - Zheng, Li
AU - Zhu, Yuyan
AU - Sun, Xuhui
AU - Zi, Yunlong
N1 - Funding Information:
Prof. Zhen Wen received his BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering from China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) in 2011 and PhD degree in Materials Physics and Chemistry from Zhejiang University (ZJU) in 2016. During 2014–2016, he was supported by the program of China Scholarship Council (CSC) as a joint PhD student in Georgia Insti- tute of Technology (GT). He has joined the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, as an assistant professor since Sep. 2016. His main research interests focus on triboelectric nanogenerator based energy harvesting and self-powered sensing systems.
Funding Information:
The work was funded by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Direct Grant (Grant No. 4055086), Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering (Grant No. 4720227), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. U1432249 and 61804103), the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant 2017YFA0205002) and the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD). This was also a project supported by the Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science & Technology. Dr Z. Wen specially thanks the support from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M610346), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (BK20170343) and the support from the State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials of Zhejiang University (SKL2018-03).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Photodetectors have been demonstrated to have broad applications in optical communication, environmental protection, biomedical monitoring, and so on. However, the applications of these photodetectors face great challenges due to the difficulties in powering these vastly distributed detectors and their limited photoresponsivity. At the same time, the invention of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) provides a novel way for generating a high-voltage low-current power supply with well-controllable output, making a promising approach to trigger photodetection. This review article summarizes the existing research work on combining TENGs with photodetectors through four different configurations. These research studies achieved self-powered or active photodetectors enabled by TENGs, explored the novel photodetection mechanisms, and demonstrated TENG output for enhancing the photoresponsivity, which will promote the relevant research toward self-powered photodetection with greatly improved performance.
AB - Photodetectors have been demonstrated to have broad applications in optical communication, environmental protection, biomedical monitoring, and so on. However, the applications of these photodetectors face great challenges due to the difficulties in powering these vastly distributed detectors and their limited photoresponsivity. At the same time, the invention of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) provides a novel way for generating a high-voltage low-current power supply with well-controllable output, making a promising approach to trigger photodetection. This review article summarizes the existing research work on combining TENGs with photodetectors through four different configurations. These research studies achieved self-powered or active photodetectors enabled by TENGs, explored the novel photodetection mechanisms, and demonstrated TENG output for enhancing the photoresponsivity, which will promote the relevant research toward self-powered photodetection with greatly improved performance.
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U2 - 10.1039/c8tc02964d
DO - 10.1039/c8tc02964d
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85054798961
SN - 2050-7534
VL - 6
SP - 11893
EP - 11902
JO - Journal of Materials Chemistry C
JF - Journal of Materials Chemistry C
IS - 44
ER -