Photoconductive properties of polycrystalline selenium based lateral MISIM photodetectors of high quantum efficiency using different dielectrics as the charge blocking layer

We studied the photoconductive performance of polycrystalline selenium (pc-Se) based photodetectors with a lateral metal–insulator-semiconductor-insulator–metal (MISIM) device structure. The insulator layer is a 10 nm-thick Ga 2 O 3 , HfO 2 , or Al 2 O 3 thin film, and used as a charge blocking laye...

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Published in:Journal of materials science. Materials in electronics 2019-07, Vol.30 (14), p.12956-12965
Main Authors: Chang, Cheng-Yi, Huang, Yu-Wei, Lin, Yi-Jie, Liao, Jye-Yow, Lin, Jian-Siang, Li, Yi-Ming, Chen, Chieh-Yang, Sheu, Jeng-Tzong, Pan, Fu-Ming
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aluminum oxide
Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
Chemistry and Materials Science
Dark current
Efficiency
Electrodes
Gallium oxides
Hafnium oxide
Materials Science
Microscopy
MIS (semiconductors)
Optical and Electronic Materials
Photoelectric effect
Photoelectric emission
Photometers
Polycrystals
Quantum efficiency
Selenium
Spectrum analysis
Thin films
Visible spectrum
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Summary:We studied the photoconductive performance of polycrystalline selenium (pc-Se) based photodetectors with a lateral metal–insulator-semiconductor-insulator–metal (MISIM) device structure. The insulator layer is a 10 nm-thick Ga 2 O 3 , HfO 2 , or Al 2 O 3 thin film, and used as a charge blocking layer (CBL) to suppress dark current injected from the Al electrodes. The dark current suppression primarily depends on the barrier height of the junctions between the CBLs and electrodes. The Ga 2 O 3 CBL exhibits a poor dark current suppression compared to the HfO 2 and the Al 2 O 3 CBLs because of a lower electron barrier at the cathode. The lateral pc-Se photodetectors exhibit a very high internal photocurrent gain due to Fowler–Nordheim tunneling at relatively low applied voltages. The better crystallinity of pc-Se grains formed on the Ga 2 O 3 CBL leads to a higher photoconversion efficiency for the MISIM-Ga 2 O 3 photodetector. Compared with amorphous Se based lateral MISIM photodetectors, the pc-Se photodetectors demonstrate a uniform and much better photoconductive performance over the visible spectrum.
ISSN:0957-4522
1573-482X
DOI:10.1007/s10854-019-01658-6