학술논문

Pyro-Photoelectric Effect Enhanced Dual-Mode Self-Powered ITO/ZnO:Ga Microwire/AlGaN Thin-Film Heterojuncted Ultraviolet Imaging Photodetector
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Sensors Journal IEEE Sensors J. Sensors Journal, IEEE. 23(12):12767-12774 Jun, 2023
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Robotics and Control Systems
Photodetectors
Wide band gap semiconductors
Heterojunctions
Aluminum gallium nitride
Zinc oxide
II-VI semiconductor materials
Sensors
Heterojunction
photodetector
pyro-photoelectric
self-power
ultraviolet (UV) detection
Language
ISSN
1530-437X
1558-1748
2379-9153
Abstract
Ultraviolet (UV) photodetectors have received a significant amount of attention in a variety of areas; especially, self-powered photodetectors are anticipated to address the energy-saving demand in the astronautics under the photovoltaic effect. In this work, a Ga-doped ZnO (ZnO:Ga)/Al $_{{0}.{1}}$ Ga $_{{0}.{9}}\text{N}$ (AlGaN) heterojunction is introduced for performing UV photodetector, which is enhanced by the pyro-photoelectric effect coupling of pyroelectric and photovoltaic effects. The heterojunction UV photodetector can operate in a self-powered mode with aresponsivity of 0.063 mA $\text{W}^{-{1}}$ under the illumination of $135 \mu \text{W}$ cm $^{-{2}}$ . More importantly, after pyro-photoelectric enhancement, the photocurrent is effectively increased from 13 to 45 pA. Additionally, under the illumination of $493 \mu \text{W}$ cm $^{-{2}}$ , the photo-to-dark-current ratio (PDCR) of 80 and ${{1}.{7} \times {10}}^{{4}}$ is obtained at a reverse bias of −10 V and forward bias of +10 V, respectively, indicating that the heterojunction UV photodetector can be regarded as a dual-mode photodetector since it can operate in both forward-biased photoconductive mode and reverse-biased depletion mode. Moreover, the UV photodetector exhibits a fast temporal pulsed laser response with a rising time of 0.79 ms and a decay time of 9.4 ms. In all, this work presents a novel strategy for the advancement of UV detection.