This relates to a device for detecting or converting light or heat energy, the device comprising: a Graphene sheet formed into a scroll such as to provide a monolayer structure in which the radius of curvature of the graphene sheet increases on increasing distance from the longitudinal axis of the scroll.

Compositions made of laminate comprised of porous carbon nanotube (CNT) are disclosed. Uses of the Compositions, particularly for reducing a formation of a load of a microorganism or of a biofilm, are also disclosed.

The present invention relates to a structure of photodiode, which comprises a substrate, a first electrode, an electron transport layer, a photoactive layer, a filter layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode is disposed on the substrate. The electron transport layer is disposed on the first electrode. The photoactive layer is disposed on the electron transport layer. The photoactive layer has a first energy gap value. The filter layer is disposed on the photoactive layer and has a second energy gap value. The second electrode is disposed on the filter layer. The second energy gap value is greater than the first energy gap value. The ratio of the second energy gap value to the first energy gap value is an energy gap ratio. The energy gap ratio is greater than 1 and less than or equal to 3.

Provided is a conductive material that is capable of achieving a high-electric conductivity, long-term stability under an atmospheric environment, heat and high humidity stabilities, as well as a conductive film and a solar cell using the same. The conductive material includes a mixture of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and polystyrene sulfonic acid (PSS acid). The element ratio (S/C ratio) of sulfur (S) to carbon (C) in the mixture may be from 0.001 to 0.1 in terms of the number of atoms. CNTs and PSS acid may make up a content percentage of 10 wt % or more in the mixture. These conductive films comprised of the conductive material 6 may have a weight per unit area of the CNTs in the range from 1 mg/m.sup.2 to 10000 mg/m.sup.2. The solar cell may include the conductive film 7, wherein the film is on the surface of a semiconductor.

The present invention relates to a perovskite optoelectronic device and a manufacturing method therefor. The present invention allows manufacture of a perovskite optoelectronic device with high efficiency at a low cost, as well as improving the electrical conductivity of a carbon nanotube electrode, by laying graphene oxide over conventional carbon nanotubes and may also be applied to a flexible device.

A solar cell structure is disclosed that includes a first metal layer, formed over predefined portions of a sun-exposed major surface of a semiconductor structure, that form electrical gridlines of the solar cell; a network of carbon nanotubes formed over the first metal layer; and a second metal layer formed onto the network of carbon nanotubes, wherein the second metal layer infiltrates the network of carbon nanotubes to connect with the first metal layer to form a first metal matrix composite comprising a metal matrix and a carbon nanotube reinforcement, wherein the second metal layer is an electrically conductive layer in which the carbon nanotube reinforcement is embedded in and bonded to the metal matrix, and the first metal matrix composite provides enhanced mechanical support as well as enhanced or equal electrical conductivity for the electrical contacts against applied mechanical stressors to the electrical contacts.

A memory device includes a bottom electrode, an insulating layer, and a top electrode. The bottom electrode includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes. The insulating layer is disposed over the plurality of carbon nanotubes. The top electrode includes a graphene layer separated from the plurality of carbon nanotubes by the insulating layer.

According to one embodiment, According to one embodiment of the invention, a conductive member includes a first layer including a metal nanowire, a second layer including a polythiophene member, and a third layer including a graphene member including a graphene skeleton. The second layer is provided between the metal nanowire and the third layer.

An oxide layer (2) of tin or niobium is formed on one surface of a carbon nanotube-containing layer (1) containing carbon nanotubes having an average diameter (Av) and a diameter standard deviation (σ) that satisfy a relationship 0.60>3σ/Av>0.20.

A polymeric dielectric may include a coordination complex of a modified elastic polymer and a metal cation. The modified elastic polymer may include an organic ligand moiety that coordinates the metal cation in a main chain of the elastic polymer. Provided are a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device and a thin film transistor including the same.