Highly sensitive photodetectors based on hybrid 2D-0D SnS2-copper indium sulfide quantum dots

Both high speed and efficiency of photoelectric conversion are essential for photodetectors. As an emerging layered metal dichalcogenide (LMD), tin disulfide owns intrinsic faster photodetection ability than most other LMDs but poor light absorption and low photoelectric conversion efficiency. We develop an efficient method to enhance its performance by constructing a SnS2-copper indium sulfide hybrid structure. As a result, the responsivity reaches 630A/W, six times stronger than pristine SnS2 and much higher than most other LMDs photodetectors. Additionally, the photocurrents are enhanced by more than 1 order of magnitude. Our work may open up a pathway to improve the performance of photodetectors based on LMDs. (C) 2016 AIP Publishing LLC.