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Heterostructured ZnS/InP nanowires for rigid/flexible ultraviolet photodetectors with enhanced performance

  • Kai Zhang
  • , Jia Ding
  • , Zheng Lou
  • , Ruiqing Chai
  • , Mianzeng Zhong
  • , Guozhen Shen*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • CAS - Institute of Semiconductors
  • University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

Heterostructured ZnS/InP nanowires, composed of single-crystalline ZnS nanowires coated with a layer of InP shell, were synthesized via a one-step chemical vapor deposition process. As-grown heterostructured ZnS/InP nanowires exhibited an ultrahigh Ion/Ioff ratio of 4.91 × 103, a high photoconductive gain of 1.10 × 103, a high detectivity of 1.65 × 1013 Jones and high response speed even in the case of very weak ultraviolet light illumination (1.87 μW cm-2). The values are much higher than those of previously reported bare ZnS nanowires owing to the formation of core/shell heterostructures. Flexible ultraviolet photodetectors were also fabricated with the heterostructured ZnS/InP nanowires, which showed excellent mechanical flexibility, electrical stability and folding endurance besides excellent photoresponse properties. The results elucidated that the heterostructured ZnS/InP nanowires could find good applications in next generation flexible optoelectronic devices.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)15416-15422
Number of pages7
JournalNanoscale
Volume9
Issue number40
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Oct 2017
Externally publishedYes

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