High-performance ge quantum dot decorated graphene/zinc-oxide heterostructure infrared photodetector

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2452-2458

  Liu, Xiang ^a,b   Ji, Xiangbing ^a   Liu, Mingju ^b   Liu, Nianze ^a   Tao, Zhi ^a   Dai, Qing ^b,c   Wei, Lei ^a   Li, Chi ^b,c   Zhang, Xiaobing ^a   Wang, Baoping ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

flexible; germanium quantum dots; graphene zinc oxide heterostructure; infrared photodetector; micron size device

Indexed keywords

II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INFRARED DETECTORS; NANOCRYSTALS; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; ZINC OXIDE;

FLEXIBLE; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; GERMANIUM QUANTUM DOTS; INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR; MICRON SIZE DEVICES; RECTIFYING BEHAVIORS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO);

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84922455724     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5072173     Document Type: Article

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