Physical Properties of Annealed ZnO Nanowire/CuSCN Heterojunctions for Self-Powered UV Photodetectors

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5820-5829

  Garnier, Jérôme ^a,b   Parize, Romain ^a,b   Appert, Estelle ^a,b   Chaix Pluchery, Odette ^a,b   Kaminski Cachopo, Anne ^a,c   Consonni, Vincent ^a,b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES MATÉRIAUX ET DU GÉNIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

^c IMEP LAHC   (France)

Author keywords

copper thiocyanate; self powered UV photodetectors; zinc oxide nanowires

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOWIRES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; ZINC OXIDE;

CHEMICAL-BATH DEPOSITION; COPPER THIOCYANATES; LOW COST FABRICATION; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RECTIFICATION RATIO; UV PHOTODETECTORS; ZINC OXIDE NANOWIRES; ZNO NANOWIRE ARRAYS;

II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84925372954     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5089605     Document Type: Article

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