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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tran, Manh Hoang
• Huyen Nguyen, Thi My
• Bark, Chung Wung

Titel

Self-assembled metal-oxo clusters for sensitive and low-powered ultraviolet photodetectors

Ist Teil von

• Journal of materials chemistry. A, Materials for energy and sustainability, 2024-03, Vol.12 (1), p.5898-598

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Despite their wide-bandgap nature and ultrahigh stability under high-energy UV radiation, zirconium-oxo clusters (ZOCs) have not yet been studied for applications related to ultraviolet (UV) detection. Interestingly, individual ZOCs can be self-assembled by bridging inter-cluster linkers to yield large-dimensional flakes with a notably low defect-induced trap density. Trap reduction facilitates efficient photon-generated charge transfer within the ZOC flakes compared with traditional UV-sensitive materials based on metal oxides or metal nitrides. In this paper, we propose a facile strategy for applying self-assembled ZOC square flakes to deep-UV photodetectors. Combined with a reasonable amount of highly transparent polyethylenimine (PEI) polymer, an asymmetrical metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) device based on the ZOC@PEI composite film exhibited an excellent UVC photoresponse with a detectivity of 1.91 × 10 12 Jones and an external quantum efficiency of 125%. This work, for the first time, demonstrates the considerable potential of utilizing ZOCs as an efficient photoactive component in highly sensitive and low-powered UV photodetectors. Large-area and low-trap zirconium-oxo cluster (ZOC) flakes were synthesized by polymerization of ZOC subunits and used as an efficient photoactive component in UV photodetectors.