JOURNAL ARTICLE

High performance, self-powered photodetectors based on a graphene/silicon Schottky junction diode

Dharmaraj PeriyanagounderPaulraj GnanasekarPurushothaman VaradhanJr‐Hau HeK. Jeganathan

Year: 2018 Journal:   Journal of Materials Chemistry C Vol: 6 (35)Pages: 9545-9551   Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

Abstract

In this work, we design and demonstrate a graphene/silicon (Gr/Si) van der Walls (vdW) heterostructure for high-performance photodetectors, where graphene acts as an efficient carrier collector and Si as a photon absorption layer. The Gr/Si heterojunction exhibits superior Schottky diode characteristics with a barrier height of 0.76 eV and performs well as a self-powered detector responding to 532 nm at zero bias.

Keywords:
Materials science Photodetector Optoelectronics Graphene Schottky barrier Heterojunction Schottky diode Silicon Diode Absorption (acoustics) Metal–semiconductor junction p–n junction Nanotechnology Semiconductor

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Nanowire Synthesis and Applications
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Biomedical Engineering
Graphene research and applications
Physical Sciences →  Materials Science →  Materials Chemistry
2D Materials and Applications
Physical Sciences →  Materials Science →  Materials Chemistry
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