Self-powered p-NiO/n-ZnO heterojunction ultraviolet photodetectors fabricated on plastic substrates

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2015-10-01
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Hasan, Md Rezaul
Xie, Ting
Barron, Sara C.
Liu, Guannan
Nguyen, Nhan V.
Motayed, Abhishek
Rao, Mulpuri V.
Debnath, Ratan
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APL Materials 3, 106101 (2015); doi: 10.1063/1.4932194
Abstract
A self-powered ultraviolet (UV) photodetector (PD) based on p-NiO and n-ZnO was fabricated using low-temperature sputtering technique on indium doped tin oxide (ITO) coated plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates. The p-n heterojunction showed very fast temporal photoresponse with excellent quantum efficiency of over 63% under UV illumination at an applied reverse bias of 1.2 V. The engineered ultrathin Ti/Au top metal contacts and UV transparent PET/ITO substrates allowed the PDs to be illuminated through either frontside or backside. Morphology, structural, chemical, and optical properties of sputtered NiO and ZnO films were also investigated.
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