4.8 Article

Organic thin film thickness-dependent photocurrents polarity in graphene heterojunction phototransistor

Journal

CARBON
Volume 178, Issue -, Pages 506-514

Publisher

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2021.03.024

Keywords

Graphene; Phototransistors; Graphene/organic heterojunction; Bi-directional response; Fast speed; Thickness-dependent polarity

Funding

  1. Outstanding Youth Fund Project of National Natural Science Foundation [61922022]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [61875031]
  3. SiChuan Science and Technology Program [2020JDRC0061]

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In a bilayer enhanced graphene/C-60/ZnPc phototransistor, the thickness-dependent photocurrent polarity can be influenced by type-II band alignment and valid interfaces, resulting in fast response time and high responsivity.
To overcome the weak absorption deficiency of 2D materials, combining bilayer/bulk heterojunction and 2D materials in a photoconductive framework facilitates the separation and transfer of photo-generated carriers for prominent performance photo-detector. Nevertheless, apart from improving the inferior built-in electric field, the multilayer device may suffer a low efficiency due to depletion loss considering the effective exciton length limitation. Here, we demonstrate the thickness-dependent photocurrent polarity based on a bilayer enhanced graphene/C-60/ZnPc phototransistor. A fast response time down to 7.29 ms and a responsivity of 6537 A/W are achieved in the device with the help of type-II band alignment and valid interfaces between organic layers. Moreover, three controlled thicknesses of intermediate charge transfer layer are investigated for the purpose of probing the transfer direction in multilayer heterojunction, which suggests that the photocurrent polarity is highly related to the thickness of C-60 and even input optical power density. Owing to the phenomena of photocurrents polarity, a distinct bending curve of responsivity-power density relation is observed near the positive-negative altering point compared to general logarithm linear relation in most photoconductive devices. Our results may enable further exploration of charge transfer mechanism in multilayer system and development of high speed photoconductive transistor. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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