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 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
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 - 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 -