Coupling of Infrared Active Colloidal Quantum Dots and Amorphous Selenium for Fast and Sensitive Photodetection

Colloidal quantum dot (CQD) based infrared (IR) photodetectors offer facile wavelength tunability in the IR and low‐cost fabrication. However, owing to their large surface areas, CQDs intrinsically have significant surface traps critically affecting the speed of CQD photodetectors, typically mediate...

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Published in:Advanced functional materials 2024-08, Vol.34 (32), p.n/a
Main Authors: Mølnås, Håvard, Mukherjee, Atreyo, Kannan, Haripriya, Han, Zhihang, Ravi, Vikash K., Paul, Shlok J., Rumaiz, Abdul K., Zhao, Wei, Goldan, Amir H., Sahu, Ayaskanta
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Language:English
Subjects:
amorphous selenium
bandwidth
Charge transport
colloidal quantum dot
Coupling
infrared photodetector
lead sulfide
Lead sulfides
Low noise
MATERIALS SCIENCE
Photometers
Quantum dots
Room temperature
Selenium
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Summary:Colloidal quantum dot (CQD) based infrared (IR) photodetectors offer facile wavelength tunability in the IR and low‐cost fabrication. However, owing to their large surface areas, CQDs intrinsically have significant surface traps critically affecting the speed of CQD photodetectors, typically mediated through tedious surface passivation efforts. In this report, an alternative strategy involving coupling of near‐IR photoactive lead sulfide CQDs with a thermally evaporated amorphous selenium (a‐Se) hole transport layer is proposed. By separating the detector into a photon absorbing CQD region and a charge transport a‐Se region, the study takes advantage of the extremely low noise, predominantly hole‐only transport process in a‐Se. A high 3 dB bandwidth of 2.5 MHz and a competitive specific detectivity of 2.5 × 1011 Jones at room temperature are demonstrated at 980 nm. This report serves as a first demonstration of strong coupling between an IR active CQD absorber and a‐Se, which paves the path to obtain fast and highly photoresponsive IR photodetection in the future. An alternative strategy to surface passivation for achieving high sensitivity and speed in colloidal quantum dot (CQD) infrared (IR) photodetectors is demonstrated. Coupling near‐IR active lead sulfide CQDs with amorphous selenium, a high 3 dB bandwidth of 2.5 MHz and a competitive specific detectivity of 2.5 × 1011 Jones at room temperature are reported without benefiting from the avalanche effect.
ISSN:1616-301X
1616-3028
DOI:10.1002/adfm.202315304