Coupling of Infrared Active Colloidal Quantum Dots and Amorphous Selenium for Fast and Sensitive Photodetection

Mølnås, Håvard; Mukherjee, Atreyo; Kannan, Haripriya; Han, Zhihang; Ravi, Vikash K.; Paul, Shlok J.; Rumaiz, Abdul K.; Zhao, Wei; Goldan, Amir H.; Sahu, Ayaskanta

doi:10.1002/adfm.202315304

Title: Coupling of Infrared Active Colloidal Quantum Dots and Amorphous Selenium for Fast and Sensitive Photodetection

Journal Article · 05 May 2024 · Advanced Functional Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202315304 · OSTI ID:2352188

Mølnås, Håvard ^[1]; Mukherjee, Atreyo ^[2]; Kannan, Haripriya ^[1]; Han, Zhihang ^[2]; Ravi, Vikash K. ^[1]; Paul, Shlok J. ^[1]; Rumaiz, Abdul K. ^[3]; Zhao, Wei ^[2]; Goldan, Amir H. ^[4];

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New York Univ. (NYU), NY (United States)
Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)
Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States); Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)

Colloidal quantum dot (CQD) based infrared (IR) photodetectors offer facile wavelength tunability in the IR and low-cost fabrication. However, owing to their large surface areas, CQDs intrinsically have significant surface traps critically affecting the speed of CQD photodetectors, typically mediated through tedious surface passivation efforts. In this report, an alternative strategy involving coupling of near-IR photoactive lead sulfide CQDs with a thermally evaporated amorphous selenium (a-Se) hole transport layer is proposed. By separating the detector into a photon absorbing CQD region and a charge transport a-Se region, the study takes advantage of the extremely low noise, predominantly hole-only transport process in a-Se. Here, a high 3 dB bandwidth of 2.5 MHz and a competitive specific detectivity of 2.5 × 10¹¹ Jones at room temperature are demonstrated at 980 nm. This report serves as a first demonstration of strong coupling between an IR active CQD absorber and a-Se, which paves the path to obtain fast and highly photoresponsive IR photodetection in the future.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF); National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 2352188

Report Number(s):: BNL--225615-2024-JAAM

Journal Information:: Advanced Functional Materials, Journal Name: Advanced Functional Materials Journal Issue: 32 Vol. 34; ISSN 1616-301X

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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