Concurrent Improvement in Photogain and Speed of a Metal Oxide Nanowire Photodetector through Enhancing Surface Band Bending via Incorporating a Nanoscale Heterojunction

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 354-359

  Retamal, José Ramón Durán ^a   Chen, Cheng Ying ^a   Lien, Der Hsien ^a   Huang, Michael R S ^b   Lin, Chin An ^a   Liu, Chuan Pu ^b   He, Jr Hau ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

nanowire; photodetector; surface band bending; surface effect; ZnO

Indexed keywords

GAS ADSORPTION; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; OXYGEN; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; ZINC OXIDE;

CHEMISORBED OXYGEN; METAL OXIDE NANOWIRES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SURFACE BAND BENDING; SURFACE EFFECT; ZNO;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84920109985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph4001108     Document Type: Article

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