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Chinese Journal of Materials Research  2019, Vol. 33 Issue (7): 523-529    DOI: 10.11901/1005.3093.2018.683
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Performance of Self-Powered UV Photodetector Based on ZnO/ZnS Heterojunction
Yi HU1,2,Siwei XU2,Xiang LI2,Jie JIA2,Dandan SANG3,Shiyong GAO2()
1. Department of Physics, Taiyuan University, Taiyuan 030032, China
2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
3. School of Physical Science and Information Technology, Shandong Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Science and Technology, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252000, China
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Yi HU,Siwei XU,Xiang LI,Jie JIA,Dandan SANG,Shiyong GAO. Performance of Self-Powered UV Photodetector Based on ZnO/ZnS Heterojunction. Chinese Journal of Materials Research, 2019, 33(7): 523-529.

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ZnO/ZnS core-shell structured nanorods array has been successfully deposited on ITO substrate via water bath method, and then were characterized by using SEM, XRD and XPS. Results show that the surface of ZnO/ZnS core-shell nanorods array is rough composed of nanorods of 150 nm in diameter, which grown uniformly and densely on the surface of ITO substrate. The self-powered ultraviolet detector was assembled using the ZnO/ZnS core-shell nanorods array and Pt as the counter electrode, then the UV detection performance was investigated. The self-powered ZnO/ZnS heterojunction ultraviolet detector has good reproducibility and stability after multiple cycles of testing. In addition, the device also has a strong photoresponse and high photosensitivity to ultralow light intensity, and displays photoresponse switching behavior as the light intensity increasing. Compared with the self-powered ZnO nanorods detector, the self-powered ZnO/ZnS heterojunction UV detector has faster response with the rise time and decay time of 0.02 s and 0.03 s, respectively.
Key words:  Inorganic non-metallic materials      ZnO      ZnS      heterojunction      UV photodetector     
Received:  30 November 2018     
ZTFLH:  TN36  
Fund: National Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2017QA013);Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province(LBH-Q16104)
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Fig.1  SEM images of ZnO nanorods (a、b) and ZnO/ZnS core/shell nanorods array (c、d)
Fig.2  EDS patterns of ZnO nanorods (a) and ZnO/ZnS core/shell nanorods array (b)
Fig.3  XRD patterns of ITO substrate(a), ZnO nanorods (b) and ZnO/ZnS core/shell nanorods array(c)
Fig.4  XPS spectra of ZnO/ZnS core/shell nanorods array (a), Zn2p (b), O1s (c) and S2p (d)
Fig.5  Time dependent current response measured under on/off UV illumination (a) and Single-cycle photoelectric response characteristic (b)
Fig.6  current density curves of self-powered UV detectors based on ZnO/ZnS heterojunction under different light intensities and current density as a function of the incident UV light intensity (a) 5 mW/cm2; (b) 8 mW/cm2; (c) 10 mW/cm2; (d) 20 mW/cm2; (e) 30 mW/cm2; (f) current density
Fig.7  Schematic working principles for the self-powered UV detectors based on ZnO/ZnS Heterojunction
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