Piezo-phototronic Effect Enhanced UV/Visible Photodetector Based on Fully Wide Band Gap Type-II ZnO/ZnS Core/Shell Nanowire Array

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 6419-6427

  Rai, Satish C ^a   Wang, Kai ^a   Ding, Yong ^b   Marmon, Jason K ^c   Bhatt, Manish ^a   Zhang, Yong ^d   Zhou, Weilie ^a   Wang, Zhong Lin ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

core shell nanowire; piezo phototronic effect; type II heterojunction; UV visible photodetector

Indexed keywords

CARRIER TRANSPORT; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NANOWIRES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

BARRIER HEIGHTS; CORE/SHELL NANOWIRE ARRAYS; CORE/SHELL NANOWIRES; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; PIEZO-PHOTOTRONIC EFFECTS; RESPONSIVITY; TYPE II HETERO JUNCTIONS; WIDE BAND GAP;

ENERGY GAP;

EID: 84934896969     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b02081     Document Type: Article

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