Tunnel Junction Engineered Photocarrier Dynamics in Epitaxial Semiconductor Nanowires for Efficient and Ultrafast Photoelectrochemical Photodetectors
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Abstract
Photodetection using photoelectrochemical (PEC) principles is an emerging field in photonics. In recent years, using epitaxial III-nitride nanowires as photoelectrodes, high-performance PEC-type photodetectors (PDs) have been demonstrated, making the epitaxial III-nitride nanowires a scalable, high-performance PEC-PD architecture. Despite the progress, the photodetection performance improvement mainly occurs through incorporating photocatalysts into the nanowire photoelectrodes. In this study, we show that a semiconductor tunnel junction (TJ), which can be a natural component in the epitaxy process of semiconductor nanowires, can drastically improve the photodetection performance of such nanowire-based PEC-PDs. By using a three-electrode PEC cell configuration, we clearly show that an n ++ -GaN/InGaN/p ++ -GaN TJ can lead to a factor of 9× improvement on the responsivity of the InGaN nanowire photoelectrode in the blue band due to the TJ-induced photocarrier dynamics tuning, compared to the InGaN nanowire photoelectrode without the TJ. More drastically, the TJ also improves the photoresponse speed of the nanowire photoelectrode by 2 orders of magnitude, and for the electrode with the TJ an ultrafast response time of less than 10 ms is estimated. This TJ concept can also be applied to other TJ structures for other band photodetections. This study therefore sheds new light on further improving the performance of emerging epitaxial nanowire-based PEC-PDs for a wide range of applications from sensing to information processing.
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