Nanowire piezo-phototronic photodetector: theory and experimental design.

Liu, Ying; Yang, Qing; Zhang, Yan; Yang, Zongyin; Wang, Zhong Lin · Adv Mater · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The piezo-phototronic effect is about the use of the inner crystal piezoelectric potential to tune/control charge carrier generation, separation, transport and/or recombination in optoelectronic devices. In this paper, a theoretical model for describing the characteristics of a metal-nanowire-metal structured piezo-phototronic photodetector is constructed. Numerical simulations fit well to the experimental results of a CdS and ZnO nanowire based visible and UV detector, respectively.

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