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Self-powered high-performance flexible aluminum nitride nanowire deep ultraviolet photodetector

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We report a high-performance self-powered, flexible, and single aluminum nitride nanowire ultraviolet photodetector (AlNNW-UVPD) with an excellent detectivity and responsivity of 2.62 × 1012 cm Hz1/2 W−1 and 362.5 mA/W, respectively, under 254 nm UV light exposure. We fabricated a very small size, flexible nanoscale photodetector via a very cost-efficient hot-contact method, achieving very good speed with the rise time and fall time of 50 ms and 251.5 ms, respectively. The AlNNW-UVPD device selectivity was demonstrated by two different UV light sources of 254 nm and 302 nm at a bias voltage of 0 V. Furthermore, the device showed very good durability to vigorous bending test. In addition to being very small, cost-effective, flexible, high performing, and durable, our self-powered AlNNW-UV photodetector can offer innovative solutions and insights for portable, sensitive, small, and flexible electronics and photonics.

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Partial financial support was received from the Istanbul Development Agency (ISTKA) under Grant Agreement No. TR10/16/YNY/0102.

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Ozdemir, Y.B., Teker, K. Self-powered high-performance flexible aluminum nitride nanowire deep ultraviolet photodetector. Appl. Phys. B 128, 171 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-022-07893-w

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