• 文献标题:   A Graphene/Polycrystalline Silicon Photodiode and Its Integration in a Photodiode-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   TSAI YY, KUO CY, LI BC, CHIU PW, HSU KYJ
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, polycrystalline silicon, photodiode, phototransistor, pixel, high dynamic range hdr image
  • 出版物名称:   MICROMACHINES
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  • 通讯作者地址:   Natl Tsing Hua Univ
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.3390/mi11060596
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

In recent years, the characteristics of the graphene/crystalline silicon junction have been frequently discussed in the literature, but study of the graphene/polycrystalline silicon junction and its potential applications is hardly found. The present work reports the observation of the electrical and optoelectronic characteristics of a graphene/polycrystalline silicon junction and explores one possible usage of the junction. The current-voltage curve of the junction was measured to show the typical exponential behavior that can be seen in a forward biased diode, and the photovoltage of the junction showed a logarithmic dependence on light intensity. A new phototransistor named the "photodiode-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (PDOSFET)" was further proposed and verified in this work. In the PDOSFET, a graphene/polycrystalline silicon photodiode was directly merged on top of the gate oxide of a conventional metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET). The magnitude of the channel current of this phototransistor showed a logarithmic dependence on the illumination level. It is shown in this work that the PDOSFET facilitates a better pixel design in a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor, especially beneficial for high dynamic range (HDR) image detection.