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Preparation and infrared response properties of vanadium dioxide nanowire/carbon nanotube composite film

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A new composite thin film of vanadium dioxide (VO2) nanowire/carbon nanotube (CNT) has been prepared by a hydrothermal method. The VO2 nanowires were covered on the whole upper surfaces of CNT and combined very well with the CNT film. XRD and Raman spectra revealed that the as-synthesized composite film had good crystallization. The film presented favorable photoelectric response at the room temperature due to the excellent thermal conductivity of CNT film and their large effective illumination area. The obtained results revealed that photocurrent showed a strong dependence on the bias voltage and incident infrared light intensity. Furthermore, the infrared photoelectric response exhibited an obvious enhancement with decreasing the thickness of the VO2 films. The responsivity (R λ ) can reach up to 17.83 mA/W for the film thickness of 25 μm, and the rise and decay time are about 0.84 and 0.56 s, respectively.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (NO. 2012CB932303), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NOs. 51472142, 51471162), the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams, and the Foundation of Director of Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 2016DFY06).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Materials Physics and Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, People’s Republic of China

    Wen Biao Fu, Guang Tao Fei & Li De Zhang

  2. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, People’s Republic of China

    Wen Biao Fu

  3. State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics and Tsinghua-Foxconn Nanotechnology Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People’s Republic of China

    He Ma, Yang Wei & Kaili Jiang

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Fu, W.B., Ma, H., Wei, Y. et al. Preparation and infrared response properties of vanadium dioxide nanowire/carbon nanotube composite film. J Mater Sci 52, 7224–7231 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-017-0959-z

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