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A self-power photodetector based on controlled growth of single crystal MAPbBr3/WO3 heterojunction

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Compared with polycrystalline films, perovskite single crystal is considered as a promising photoelectric material due to its unique advantages in quantum efficiency and carrier diffusion length. In this work, the micron-thickness MAPbBr3 single crystal was prepared through a highly repeatable process based on the crystal seed dissolution-growth method. A heterojunction of MAPbBr3/WO3 single crystal was realized through a simple thermal evaporation process, and the integrated C/MAPbBr3/WO3/C device demonstrated self-powered characteristics and high photoelectric performance, which showed good responsivity of about 111 mA/W, detectivity of 9.64×1011 Jones and fast response speed (0.11/0.56 ms). Meanwhile, the device exhibited good rectification performance (ratio of 125 at ±2 V) and reduced dark current due to the built-in electric field formed in the heterojunction. This study provides a facile, flexible, and highly repeatable method for the preparation of high-performance photodetectors based on MAPbBr3 single crystals with micrometer thickness.

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  1. Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Anhui University, Hefei, 230039, China

    JianFeng Yao, Hu Zhang, LiangPan Yang, DuanWangDe Liu, YaLi Hu, Wei Zeng, PengBin Gui, ZhiLiang Chen & XinGang Ren

  2. Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Target Recognition and Feature Extraction, Lu’an, 237009, China

    ZhiLiang Chen & XinGang Ren

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    ZhiLiang Chen

  4. School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang, 441053, China

    JunZheng Lu

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Education Department of Anhui Province (Grant Nos. KJ2020A0032 and 2108085MF198), Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. U20A20164, 61971001, 62171001), Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant Nos. 2208085QA10, 2208085QF187), The University Synergy Innovation Program of Anhui province (Grant Nos. GXXT-2021-027, GXXT-2020-050, GXXT-2020-051), X. R. acknowledges funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 62171001, 61701003) and of Anhui Province (Grant Nos. 2108085MF198, 1808085QF179), also with the support of Key R&D plan of Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant Nos. 2022YFB4200901-1, 2022YFB4200903) and the University Synergy Innovation Program of Anhui Province(Grant No. GXXT-2022-009).

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Yao, J., Zhang, H., Lu, J. et al. A self-power photodetector based on controlled growth of single crystal MAPbBr3/WO3 heterojunction. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 66, 2660–2668 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-022-2383-x

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