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Wavelength-selectivity polarization dependence of optical absorption and photoresponse in SnS nanosheets

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The optical and optoelectronic characteristics of SnS nanosheets with strong anisotropic crystal structure are researched. Transmission electron microscopy and polarized Raman spectra are used to determine the crystal orientation of SnS nanosheets. The photodetector based on SnS nanosheets exhibits the carrier mobility of 37.75 cm2/V·S photoresponsivity of 310.5 A/W and external quantum efficiency of 8.56 × 104 % at 450 nm. Optical absorption around the absorption edge presents obvious polarization sensitivity with the highest optical absorption dichroic ratio of 3.06 at 862 nm. Due to anisotropic optical absorption, the polarized photocurrent appears as the periodic change affected by the polarized direction of the incident light at 808 nm. Overall, SnS nanosheets show good potential in the future application of the polarized photodetectors for specific wavelength.

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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 62004193 and 81900912), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0207500), the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB43000000), and Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS201908).

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    Yu Cui, Ziqi Zhou, Xiaoting Wang, Zhihui Ren, Longfei Pan & Juehan Yang

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China

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Cui, Y., Zhou, Z., Wang, X. et al. Wavelength-selectivity polarization dependence of optical absorption and photoresponse in SnS nanosheets. Nano Res. 14, 2224–2230 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3197-7

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