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Narrowing Bandgap of HfS2 by Te Substitution for Short-Wavelength Infrared Photodetection

  • Jiafu Ye
  • , Ke Liao
  • , Xun Ge
  • , Zhen Wang*
  • , Yang Wang
  • , Meng Peng
  • , Ting He
  • , Peisong Wu
  • , Hailu Wang
  • , Yunfeng Chen
  • , Zhuangzhuang Cui
  • , Yue Gu
  • , Hangyu Xu
  • , Tengfei Xu
  • , Qing Li
  • , Xiaohao Zhou
  • , Man Luo
  • , Ning Li
  • , Muhammad Zubair
  • , Feng Wu
  • Peng Wang, Chongxin Shan, Gang Wang*, Jinshui Miao*, Weida Hu
*Corresponding author for this work
  • CAS - Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics
  • University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • CAS - Institute of Physics
  • Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • Nantong University
  • Zhengzhou University

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Abstract

Infrared photodetectors are widely used in the field of remote sensing, communications, biomedical imaging, etc. Most photodetection based on 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is limited to the visible (Vis) to near-infrared (NIR) due to large intrinsic bandgaps (≈1.2–2 eV). Here, a bandgap engineering of HfS2 by a tellurium (Te)-replacement strategy is obtained via chemical vapor transport method. The bandgap values of HfS2(1−x)Te2x decrease from 1.7 to 0.88 eV with Te composition changing from 0 to 0.095. Few-layer HfS1.81Te0.19 based field-effect transistors exhibit a high current on/off ratio of 106 and decent electron mobility of 12.6 cm2 V−1 s−1 at room temperature. The photodetectors show a responsivity of 2 A W−1 with a remarkable photocurrent of ≈3 μA and a fast response speed of 8.8/75 ms at 830 nm simultaneously. Further, the response spectrum of HfS2(1−x)Te2x based photodetectors is broadened from Vis to short-wavelength infrared (SWIR), covering the free-space laser communications wavelength and the second NIR region in medicine. Bandgap engineering of 2D TMDs proposed in this work offer a promising route to develop bandgap-variable 2D materials for infrared photodetection applications.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2002248
JournalAdvanced Optical Materials
Volume9
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Jun 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • bandgap engineering
  • HfS, infrared photodetectors
  • transition-metal dichalcogenides

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