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Vol. 13 (2021)

Single-Layer ZnO Hollow Hemispheres Enable High-Performance Self-Powered Perovskite Photodetector for Optical Communication

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-021-00596-5
Xiyan Pan
Hubei Key Laboratory of Ferro and Piezoelectric Materials and Devices, School of Microelectronics and Faculty of Physics and Electronic Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, People’s Republic of China
Jianqiang Zhang
Hubei Key Laboratory of Ferro and Piezoelectric Materials and Devices, School of Microelectronics and Faculty of Physics and Electronic Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, People’s Republic of China
Hai Zhou
Hubei Key Laboratory of Ferro and Piezoelectric Materials and Devices, School of Microelectronics and Faculty of Physics and Electronic Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, People’s Republic of China
Ronghuan Liu
Hubei Key Laboratory of Ferro and Piezoelectric Materials and Devices, School of Microelectronics and Faculty of Physics and Electronic Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, People’s Republic of China
Dingjun Wu
Hubei Key Laboratory of Ferro and Piezoelectric Materials and Devices, School of Microelectronics and Faculty of Physics and Electronic Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, People’s Republic of China
Rui Wang
Hubei Key Laboratory of Ferro and Piezoelectric Materials and Devices, School of Microelectronics and Faculty of Physics and Electronic Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, People’s Republic of China
Liangping Shen
Hubei Key Laboratory of Ferro and Piezoelectric Materials and Devices, School of Microelectronics and Faculty of Physics and Electronic Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, People’s Republic of China
Li Tao
Hubei Key Laboratory of Ferro and Piezoelectric Materials and Devices, School of Microelectronics and Faculty of Physics and Electronic Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, People’s Republic of China
Jun Zhang
Hubei Key Laboratory of Ferro and Piezoelectric Materials and Devices, School of Microelectronics and Faculty of Physics and Electronic Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, People’s Republic of China
Hao Wang
Hubei Key Laboratory of Ferro and Piezoelectric Materials and Devices, School of Microelectronics and Faculty of Physics and Electronic Science, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Hao Wang

wangh@hubu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 13 (2021), Article Number: 70

Abstract

The carrier transport layer with reflection reduction morphology has attracted extensive attention for improving the utilization of light. Herein, we introduced single-layer hollow ZnO hemisphere arrays (ZHAs) behaving light trapping effect as the electron transport layer in perovskite photodetectors (PDs). The single-layer hollow ZHAs can not only reduce the reflection, but also widen the angle of the effective incident light and especially transfer the distribution of the optical field from the ZnO/FTO interface to the perovskite active layer confirmed by the 3D finite-difference time-domain simulation. These merits benefit for the generation, transport and separation of carriers, improving the light utilization efficiency. Finally, our optimized FTO/ZHA/CsPbBr3/carbon structure PDs showed high self-powered performance with a linear dynamic range of 120.3 dB, a detectivity of 4.2 × 1012 Jones, rise/fall time of 13/28 µs and the f−3 dB of up to 28 kHz. Benefiting from the high device performance, the PD was demonstrated to the application in the directional transmission of encrypted files as the signal receiving port with super high accuracy. This work uniquely utilizes the features of high-performance self-powered perovskite PDs in optical communication, paving the path to wide applications of all-inorganic perovskite PDs.


Highlights:


1 Single-layer hollow ZnO hemispherical arrays behaving light trapping effect as the electron transport layer in perovskite photodetectors were first introduced.
2 Our photodetectors showed high self-powered performances with a LDR of 120.3 dB, a detectivity of 4.2 × 1012 Jones, rise/fall time of 13/28 µs and the f−3 dB of up to 28 kHz.
3 Benefiting from the high device performance, the photodetector was demonstrated to the directional transmission of encrypted files as the signal receiving port with super high accuracy.

Keywords

Hemisphere array Perovskite Photodetector Reflection reduction Optical communication
Pan, Xiyan, Jianqiang Zhang, Hai Zhou, Ronghuan Liu, Dingjun Wu, Rui Wang, Liangping Shen, Li Tao, Jun Zhang, and Hao Wang. 2021. “Single-Layer ZnO Hollow Hemispheres Enable High-Performance Self-Powered Perovskite Photodetector for Optical Communication”. Nano-Micro Letters 13 (February):70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-021-00596-5.
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