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Zhang ZH, Yan SS, Chen YL, Lian ZD, Fu A, Kong YC, Li L, Su SC, Ng KW, Wei ZP, Liu HC, Wang SP. Air-Stable Self-Driven UV Photodetectors on Controllable Lead-Free CsCu 2I 3 Microwire Arrays. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:10398-10406. [PMID: 38380978 PMCID: PMC10910456 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c17881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2023] [Revised: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024]
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The rapid evolution of the Internet of Things has engendered increased requirements for low-cost, self-powered UV photodetectors. Herein, high-performance self-driven UV photodetectors are fabricated by designing asymmetric metal-semiconductor-metal structures on the high-quality large-area CsCu2I3 microwire arrays. The asymmetrical depletion region doubles the photocurrent and response speed compared to the symmetric structure device, leading to a high responsivity of 233 mA/W to 355 nm radiation. Notably, at 0 V bias, the asymmetric device produces an open-circuit voltage of 356 mV and drives to a short-circuit current of 372 pA; meanwhile, the switch ratio (Iph/Idark) reaches up to 103, indicating its excellent potential for detecting weak light. Furthermore, the device maintains stable responses throughout 10000 UV-light switch cycles, with negligible degradation even after 90-day storage in air. Our work establishes that CsCu2I3 is a good candidate for self-powered UV detection and thoroughly demonstrates its potential as a passive device.
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- Zhi-Hong Zhang
- State
Key Laboratory of High Power Semiconductor Lasers, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China
- Institute
of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao SAR 999078, China
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- Institute
of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao SAR 999078, China
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- Institute
of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao SAR 999078, China
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- Institute
of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao SAR 999078, China
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- Institute
of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao SAR 999078, China
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- Institute
of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao SAR 999078, China
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- Key
Laboratory for Photonic and Electronic Bandgap Materials, Ministry
of Education, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
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- School
of Semiconductor Science and Technology, South China Normal University, Foshan 528000, China
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- Institute
of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao SAR 999078, China
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- State
Key Laboratory of High Power Semiconductor Lasers, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China
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- Institute
of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao SAR 999078, China
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- Institute
of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao SAR 999078, China
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Liu JY, Wang JJ, Lin DH, Wang J, Fu C, Liang FX, Li X, Gu ZP, Wu D, Luo LB. Sensitive Silicon Nanowire Ultraviolet B Photodetector Induced by Leakage Mode Resonances. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:32341-32349. [PMID: 35797443 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c04606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Ultraviolet photodetectors (UVPDs) have played an important role both in civil and military applications. While various studies have shown that traditional UVPDs based on wide-band-gap semiconductors (WBSs) have excellent device performances, it is, however, undeniable that the practical application of WBS-based UVPDs is largely limited by the relatively high fabrication cost. In this work, we propose a new silicon nanowire (Si NW) UVPD that is very sensitive to UVB light illumination. The Si NWs with a diameter of about 36 nm are fabricated by a metal-assisted chemical etching method. Performance analysis revealed that the Si NW device was only sensitive to UVB light and almost blind to illumination in the visible and near-infrared regions. Such abnormal spectral selectivity was associated with the leakage mode resonances (LMRs) of the small diameter, according to our theoretical simulation. Under 300 nm illumination, the responsivity, external quantum efficiency, and specific detectivity were estimated to be 10.2 AW-1, 4.22 × 103%, and 2.14 × 1010 Jones, respectively, which were comparable to or even higher than those of some WBS-based UVPDs. These results illustrate that the small dimension Si NWs are potential building blocks for low-cost and high-performance UVPDs in the future.
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- Jia-Yin Liu
- School of Microelectronics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Microelectronics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Physics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Microelectronics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Microelectronics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Microelectronics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Microelectronics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Microelectronics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- Key Laboratory of Materials Physics of Ministry of Education, Department of Physics and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China
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- School of Microelectronics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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Highly sensitive strain sensors based on piezotronic tunneling junction. Nat Commun 2022; 13:778. [PMID: 35140219 PMCID: PMC8828782 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28443-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2021] [Accepted: 01/26/2022] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Piezotronics with capacity of constructing adaptive and seamless interactions between electronics/machines and human/ambient are of value in Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and biomedical engineering. Here, we report a kind of highly sensitive strain sensor based on piezotronic tunneling junction (Ag/HfO2/n-ZnO), which utilizes the strain-induced piezoelectric potential to control the tunneling barrier height and width in parallel, and hence to synergistically modulate the electrical transport process. The piezotronic tunneling strain sensor has a high on/off ratio of 478.4 and high gauge factor of 4.8 × 105 at the strain of 0.10%, which is more than 17.8 times larger than that of a conventional Schottky-barrier based strain sensor in control group as well as some existing ZnO nanowire or nanobelt based sensors. This work provides in-depth understanding for the basic mechanism of piezotronic modulation on tunneling junction, and realizes the highly sensitive strain sensor of piezotronic tunneling junction on device scale, which has great potential in advanced micro/nano-electromechanical devices and systems. Strain-induced piezoelectric polarization can be used to modulate the interface electrical transport. Here, the authors achieved a piezotronic tunneling strain sensor at device scale with optimized performance based on the structure of Ag/HfO2/n-ZnO.
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Fu F, Liu Y, Li Y, Fu B, Zheng L, Feng J, Li D. Interfacial Bifunctional Effect Promoted Non-Noble Cu/Fe yMgO x Catalysts for Selective Hydrogenation of Acetylene. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c02162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Fengzhi Fu
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, and BIC-ESAT, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, Sinopec Group, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Engineering Center for Hierarchical Catalysts, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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Li MY, Liu S, Huang Z, Ai Y, Shen K, Lu H, Li M, Wu J. Facile Fabrication of Ultrasensitive Honeycomb Nano-Mesh Ultraviolet Photodetectors Based on Self-Assembled Plasmonic Architectures. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:35972-35980. [PMID: 34289689 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c08739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The dilemma of harvesting fugacious photons by photoactive nanomaterials of limited absorption volume fundamentally hinders the photodetection at relatively lower light intensities. To address the insufficient light utilization efficiency, spatial light confinement becomes an effective and promising approach. High-performance ultraviolet (UV) photodetectors based on the self-assembled Au nanoparticle/ZnO honeycomb nano-mesh (Au NP/ZnO HN) are demonstrated through a facile solution-processed method on anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) membranes. The congregated geometry of the self-assembled ZnO HNs is well-defined by the AAO matrixes, which also effectively collects the transmitted light beams back to the photoactive layers. Benefiting from surface plasmon resonance, the enhanced absorption of the ZnO HNs is eventually obtained via the recursive light utilization between Au NPs and AAO matrixes as a function of AAO pore diameters (DAAO). With a systematic control of the photodetector configurations, an optimal performance is obtained with growth duration of the ZnO HNs for 40 min on the AAO substrates (DAAO = 100 nm), and an excellent responsivity of 23.4 A/W is witnessed even under a relatively low light intensity of 0.4 mW/cm2, providing a novel route to realize high-performance UV photodetection under low-power illumination.
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- Ming-Yu Li
- School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China
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- School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China
- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Film and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China
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Liu S, Li MY, Zhang J, Su D, Huang Z, Kunwar S, Lee J. Self-Assembled Al Nanostructure/ZnO Quantum Dot Heterostructures for High Responsivity and Fast UV Photodetector. NANO-MICRO LETTERS 2020; 12:114. [PMID: 34138130 PMCID: PMC7770880 DOI: 10.1007/s40820-020-00455-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2020] [Accepted: 05/01/2020] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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HIGHLIGHTS High performance Al nanostructures/ZnO quantum dots heterostructure photodetectors with a controllable geometry of the Al nanostructures are demonstrated. Light utilization of the photoactive layers is significantly boosted with the Al nanostructures. The light confinement effect is inherently determined by the geometries of the Al nanostructures. ABSTRACT Light confinement induced by spontaneous near-surface resonance is inherently determined by the location and geometry of metallic nanostructures (NSs), offering a facile and effective approach to break through the limitation of the light-mater interaction within the photoactive layers. Here, we demonstrate high-performance Al NS/ZnO quantum dots (Al/ZnO) heterostructure UV photodetectors with controllable morphologies of the self-assembled Al NSs. The Al/ZnO heterostructures exhibit a superior light utilization than the ZnO/Al heterostructures, and a strong morphological dependence of the Al NSs on the optical properties of the heterostructures. The inter-diffusion of Al atoms into ZnO matrixes is of a great benefit for the carrier transportation. Consequently, the optimal photocurrent of the Al/ZnO heterostructure photodetectors is significantly increased by 275 times to ~ 1.065 mA compared to that of the pristine ZnO device, and an outstanding photoresponsivity of 11.98 A W−1 is correspondingly achieved under 6.9 mW cm−2 UV light illumination at 10 V bias. In addition, a relatively fast response is similarly witnessed with the Al/ZnO devices, paving a path to fabricate the high-performance UV photodetectors for applications. [Image: see text] ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL The online version of this article (10.1007/s40820-020-00455-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Sisi Liu
- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) and School of Engineering Sciences, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China
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- College of Electonics and Information, Kwangwoon University, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 01897, Republic of Korea
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- College of Electonics and Information, Kwangwoon University, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 01897, Republic of Korea
- Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA
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