4.6 Article

Great Enhancement Effect of 20-40 nm Ag NPs on Solar-Blind UV Response of the Mixed-Phase MgZnO Detector

Journal

ACS OMEGA
Volume 6, Issue 10, Pages 6699-6707

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c05555

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Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51872187, 11774241, 51371120, 51302174, 61704111, 61504083, 61574051]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province [2016A030313060, 2017A030310524]
  3. Public Welfare Capacity Building in Guangdong Province [2015A010103016]
  4. Project of Department of Education of Guangdong Province [2014KTSCX110]
  5. Science and Technology Research Items of Shenzhen [JCYJ20170818144255777, JCYJ20170818144212483, JCYJ20180507182248925, JCYJ201602261920, JCYJ20170818143417082, JCYJ20160226192033020]
  6. Science and Technology Foundation of Shenzhen
  7. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFB0404100, 2017YFB0403000]

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The introduction of silver nanoparticles with different sizes can effectively modulate the peak UV response position of mixed-phase MgZnO thin films and greatly increase the sensitivity of the detector without affecting device speed.
High-performance solar-blind UV detector with high response and fast speed is needed in multiple types of areas, which is hard to achieve in one device with a simple structure and device fabrication process. Here, the effects of Ag nanoparticles (NPs) with different sizes on UV response characteristics of the device are studied, the Ag NPs with different sizes that are made from a simple vacuum anneal method. Ag NPs with different sizes could modulate the peak response position of the mixed-phase MgZnO detector from near UV range (350 nm) to deep UV range (235 nm), and the enhancement effect of the Ag NPs on the UV response differs much with the crystal structure and the basic UV response of the MgZnO thin film. When high density 20-40 nm Ag NPs is induced, the deep UV (235 nm) response of the mixed-phase MgZnO detector is increased by 226 times, the Iuv/Idark ratio of the modified device is increased by 17.5 times. The slight enhancement in UV light intensity from 20 to 40 nm Ag NPs induces multiple tunnel breakdown phenomena within the mixed-phase MgZnO thin film, which is the main reason for the abnormal great enhancement effect on deep UV response of the device, so the recovery speed of the modified device is not influenced. Therefore, Ag NPs with different sizes could effectively modulate the UV response peak position of mixed-phase MgZnO thin films, and the introduction of Ag NPs with high density and small size is a simple way to greatly increase the sensitivity of the mixed-phase MgZnO detector at deep UV light without decreasing the device speed.

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