• 文献标题:   Reconfigurable 2D/0D p-n Graphene/HgTe Nanocrystal Heterostructure for Infrared Detection
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   NOUMBE UN, GREBOVAL C, LIVACHE C, CHU A, MAJJAD H, LOPEZ LEP, MOUAFO LDN, DOUDIN B, BERCIAUD S, CHASTE J, OUERGHI A, LHUILLIER E, DAYEN JF
  • 作者关键词:   hgte, narrow band gap nanocrystal, infrared detection, gateinduced diode, graphene
  • 出版物名称:   ACS NANO
  • ISSN:   1936-0851 EI 1936-086X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Sorbonne Univ
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1021/acsnano.0c00103
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

Nanocrystals are promising building blocks for the development of low-cost infrared optoelectronics. Gating a nanocrystal film in a phototransistor geometry is commonly proposed as a strategy to tune the signal-to-noise ratio by carefully controlling the carrier density within the semiconductor. However, the performance improvement has so far been quite marginal. With metallic electrodes, the gate dependence of the photocurrent follows the gate-induced change of the dark current. Graphene presents key advantages: (i) infrared transparency that allows back-side illumination, (ii) vertical electric field transparency, and (iii) carrier selectivity under gate bias. Here, we investigate a configuration of 2D/0D infrared photodetectors taking advantage of a high capacitance ionic glass gate, large-scale graphene electrodes, and a HgTe nanocrystals layer of high carrier mobility. The introduction of graphene electrodes combined with ionic glass enables one to reconfigure selectively the HgTe nanocrystals and the graphene electrodes between electron-doped (n) and hole-doped (p) states. We unveil that this functionality enables the design a 2D/0D p-n junction that expands throughout the device, with a built-in electric field that assists charge dissociation. We demonstrate that, in this specific configuration, the signal-to-noise ratio for infrared photodetection can be enhanced by 2 orders of magnitude, and that photovoltaic operation can be achieved. The detectivity now reaches 10(9) Jones, whereas the device only absorbs 8% of the incident light. Additionally, the time response of the device is fast (<10 mu s), which strongly contrasts with the slow response commonly observed for 2D/0D mixed-dimensional heterostructures, where larger photoconduction gains come at the cost of slower response.