Enhancement of optical properties by incorporating Au quantum dots in CVD WSe2 based photodetector

Avra S. Bandyopadhyay; Anupama B. Kaul

doi:10.1117/12.2519131

13 May 2019 Enhancement of optical properties by incorporating Au quantum dots in CVD WSe₂ based photodetector

Proceedings Volume 10979, Energy Harvesting and Storage: Materials, Devices, and Applications IX; 109790H (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2519131
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2019, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

Tungsten diselenide (WSe₂) is an interesting two dimensional (2D) transitional metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) with a high quantum yield in photoluminescence (PL), a strong spin-orbit coupling and tunable transport properties. One way to increase photon absorption in WSe₂ is to combine WSe₂ with other excitonic nanomaterials such as Quantum dots (QDs) from which photogenerated excitons can be transferred onto the TMDCs via non-radiative energy transfer. Such characteristics prove highly effective in the utilization of QDs toward enhancing the optical responsivity of 2D material-based photo-FET devices. In this study, we fabricated WSe₂ based photodetector and showed that its photoconduction property was improved by incorporation of Au-QDs. Monolayer WSe₂ was synthesized on SiO₂/Si by low pressure chemical vapor deposition method at a growth temperature of ~ 850°C. Thereafter, Au-QDs (~15 nm) were drop casted onto WSe₂ followed by vacuum annealing. PL spectroscopy showed enhancement in excitonic A-peak intensity by an order of 2-fold in the region where Au QD was incorporated. E-beam lithography was used to fabricate the back gated photo transistor followed by Au/Ti deposition by E-beam evaporation. The device was illuminated with a red laser source (660 nm) to study its optoelectronic properties. The photoresponsivity was found to improve by a factor of ~102 with the incorporation of Au QDs in 1L WSe₂. Our results demonstrate the viability of this hybrid structure for commercial photodetector and light harvesting applications.

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Avra S. Bandyopadhyay and Anupama B. Kaul "Enhancement of optical properties by incorporating Au quantum dots in CVD WSe₂ based photodetector", Proc. SPIE 10979, Energy Harvesting and Storage: Materials, Devices, and Applications IX, 109790H (13 May 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2519131

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