Abstract
Inorganic semiconductor multilayer thin films of CdS nanoparticles and titania nanosheet (TNS) were prepared by an electrostatic layer-by-layer accumulation technique. The absorbance of immobilized CdS and TNS linearly increased in proportion to the number of accumulated films, but the photoluminescence of CdS nanoparticles was dramatically quenched by being tucked into the TNS layer. Accumulation of the TNS/CdS layer remarkably enhanced the photocurrent generation compared to the case of films layer-by-layer-deposited with CdS nanoparticles and polystyrene sulfonate of an inert polymer. These observations can be explained by the efficient photoinduced electron transfer from photoexcited CdS nanoparticles to adjacent TNS layers.
