A self-powered high-performance graphene/silicon ultraviolet photodetector with ultra-shallow junction: breaking the limit of silicon?

Optoelectronics: Graphene breaks limit of silicon-based UV detection A high-performance graphene/silicon ultraviolet (UV) photodetector significantly increases the upper-limit of traditional silicon-based UV detectors. A team led by Yang Xu at China’s Zhejiang University fabricated silicon-based UV...

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Auteurs principaux: Xia Wan, Yang Xu, Hongwei Guo, Khurram Shehzad, Ayaz Ali, Yuan Liu, Jianyi Yang, Daoxin Dai, Cheng-Te Lin, Liwei Liu, Hung-Chieh Cheng, Fengqiu Wang, Xiaomu Wang, Hai Lu, Weida Hu, Xiaodong Pi, Yaping Dan, Jikui Luo, Tawfique Hasan, Xiangfeng Duan, Xinming Li, Jianbin Xu, Deren Yang, Tianling Ren, Bin Yu
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Publié: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/5ffb3f7e230c4261937f4ebc80feeb75
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Résumé:Optoelectronics: Graphene breaks limit of silicon-based UV detection A high-performance graphene/silicon ultraviolet (UV) photodetector significantly increases the upper-limit of traditional silicon-based UV detectors. A team led by Yang Xu at China’s Zhejiang University fabricated silicon-based UV detectors using graphene with unique UV absorption property, leading to ultra-long lifetime of hot carriers that contribute to photocurrent, and even to carrier multiplication. In the near- and mid-UV regime, the improved performance parameters are photocurrent responsivity (0.20 A W−1), response time (<5 ns), specific detectivity (1.6 × 1013 Jones), and IQE (>100%). The key metrics of graphene/Si detector outperform those of UV detectors based on Si, GaN, SiC, etc. These results show great promise in applications such as wearable devices, secured mobile communication, and “dissipation-less” remote sensor networks.