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Science. 2017 Feb 10;355(6325):616-619. doi: 10.1126/science.aal2038.

Double-heterojunction nanorod light-responsive LEDs for display applications.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Nuri Oh, Bong Hoon Kim, Seong-Yong Cho, Sooji Nam, Steven P Rogers, Yiran Jiang, Joseph C Flanagan, You Zhai, Jae-Hwan Kim, Jungyup Lee, Yongjoon Yu, Youn Kyoung Cho, Gyum Hur, Jieqian Zhang, Peter Trefonas, John A Rogers, Moonsub Shim

Affiliations

  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. [email protected] [email protected].
  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
  3. Information Control Device Research Section, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, 305-700, Republic of Korea.
  4. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
  5. Dow Electronic Materials, 455 Forest Street, Marlborough, MA 01752, USA.

PMID: 28183975 DOI: 10.1126/science.aal2038

Abstract

Dual-functioning displays, which can simultaneously transmit and receive information and energy through visible light, would enable enhanced user interfaces and device-to-device interactivity. We demonstrate that double heterojunctions designed into colloidal semiconductor nanorods allow both efficient photocurrent generation through a photovoltaic response and electroluminescence within a single device. These dual-functioning, all-solution-processed double-heterojunction nanorod light-responsive light-emitting diodes open feasible routes to a variety of advanced applications, from touchless interactive screens to energy harvesting and scavenging displays and massively parallel display-to-display data communication.

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