Issue 42, 2019

High gain broadband photoconductor based on amorphous Ga2O3 and suppression of persistent photoconductivity

Abstract

In this work, a new type of photoconductor with high responsivity and gain over a wide spectral range of DUV to NIR using a wide band gap amorphous gallium oxide (a-Ga2O3) thin film was reported for the first time. The responsivity (gain) at deep UV-250, UV-350, VIS-525 and NIR-850 nm is as high as 1099 (5438), 265 (936), 205 (483) and 122 A W−1 (178), respectively. More interestingly, we demonstrate that a novel “thermal relaxation” (TR) process (short-time heating) can effectively reduce the dark current and improve the response recovery time from hours to seconds without reducing the gain of the a-Ga2O3 detector. The mechanism related to oxygen vacancies and thermal energy and tail state excitation is proposed to explain our experimental phenomena. This result suggests that amorphous Ga2O3 films have potential applications in high-performance broadband photodetecting devices.

Graphical abstract: High gain broadband photoconductor based on amorphous Ga2O3 and suppression of persistent photoconductivity

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
19 Sep 2019
Accepted
04 Oct 2019
First published
09 Oct 2019

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019,7, 13149-13155

High gain broadband photoconductor based on amorphous Ga2O3 and suppression of persistent photoconductivity

H. Zhou, L. Cong, J. Ma, B. Li, M. Chen, H. Xu and Y. Liu, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 13149 DOI: 10.1039/C9TC05159G

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