Photoresponse of Natural van der Waals Heterostructures

Ray, Kyle; Yore, Alexander E.; Mou, Tong; Jha, Sauraj; Smithe, Kirby K.  H.; Wang, Bin; Pop, Eric; Newaz, A. K.  M.

doi:10.1021/acsnano.7b01918

Title: Photoresponse of Natural van der Waals Heterostructures

Journal Article · Tue May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · ACS Nano

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b01918· OSTI ID:1487448

Ray, Kyle ^[1]; Yore, Alexander E. ^[1]; Mou, Tong ^[2]; Jha, Sauraj ^[1]; Smithe, Kirby K. H. ^[3];

^[2]; Pop, Eric ^[3];

^[1]

San Francisco State Univ., CA (United States)
Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

Van der Waals heterostructures consisting of two-dimensional materials offer a platform to obtain materials by design and are very attractive owing to unique electronic states. Research on 2D van der Waals heterostructures (vdWH) has so far been focused on fabricating individually stacked atomically thin unary or binary crystals. Such systems include graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and members of the transition metal dichalcogenide family. In this paper, we present our experimental study of the optoelectronic properties of a naturally occurring vdWH, known as franckeite, which is a complex layered crystal composed of lead, tin, antimony, iron, and sulfur. We present here that thin film franckeite (60 nm < d < 100 nm) behaves as a narrow band gap semiconductor demonstrating a wide-band photoresponse. We have observed the band-edge transition at ~1500 nm (~830 meV) and high external quantum efficiency (EQE ≈ 3%) at room temperature. Laser-power-resolved and temperature-resolved photocurrent measurements reveal that the photocarrier generation and recombination are dominated by continuously distributed trap states within the band gap. To understand wavelength-resolved photocurrent, we also calculated the optical absorption properties via density functional theory. Finally, we have shown that the device has a fast photoresponse with a rise time as fast as ~1 ms. Finally, our study provides a fundamental understanding of the optoelectronic behavior in a complex naturally occurring vdWH, and may pave an avenue toward developing nanoscale optoelectronic devices with tailored properties.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI ID:: 1487448

Journal Information:: ACS Nano, Vol. 11, Issue 6; ISSN 1936-0851

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