Self-powered ultrafast broadband photodetector based on p-n heterojunctions of CuO/Si nanowire array

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 20887-20894

  Hong, Qingshui ^a,b   Cao, Yang ^a   Xu, Jia ^c   Lu, Huimin ^b   He, Junhui ^a   Sun, Jia Lin ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e The Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter   (China)

Author keywords

broadband photodetector, heterojunctions, silicon nanowire array; cupric oxide; response speed; self powered

Indexed keywords

BIAS VOLTAGE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOWIRES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

CUPRIC OXIDE; HIGH RESPONSE SPEED; LOW TURN-ON VOLTAGES; P-N HETEROJUNCTIONS; RESPONSE SPEED; SELF-POWERED; SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAYS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

COPPER OXIDES;

EID: 84917708899     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5054338     Document Type: Article

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