Fast and enhanced broadband photoresponse of a ZnO nanowire array/reduced graphene oxide film hybrid photodetector from the visible to the near-infrared range

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 6645-6651

  Liu, Hao ^a   Sun, Qi ^b,c   Xing, Jie ^a   Zheng, Zhiyuan ^a   Zhang, Zhili ^a   Lü, Zhiqing ^b,c   Zhao, Kun ^b,c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^c China Association of Petroleum and Chemical Industries   (China)

Author keywords

nanowire; photovoltage; reduced graphene oxide; Schottky junction; zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOWIRES; OXIDE FILMS; OXIDE MINERALS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS; ZINC OXIDE;

HYBRID COMPOSITES; HYBRID NANOSTRUCTURES; HYBRID PHOTO DETECTORS; NEAR-INFRARED RANGE; PHOTO-VOLTAGE; PHOTORESPONSES; PHOTOVOLTAIC RESPONSE; SCHOTTKY JUNCTIONS;

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84926331158     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am509084r     Document Type: Article

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