title: Piezo-phototronic effect enhanced visible/UV photodetector of a carbon-fiber/ZnO-CdS double-shell microwire.
abstract: A branched ZnO-CdS double-shell NW array on the surface of a carbon fiber (CF/ZnO-CdS) was successfully synthesized via a facile two-step hydrothermal method. Based on a single CF/ZnO-CdS wire on a polymer substrate, a flexible photodetector was fabricated, which exhibited ultrahigh photon responsivity under illuminations of blue light (1.11 × 10(5) A/W, 8.99 × 10(-8) W/cm(2), 480 nm), green light (3.83 × 10(4) A/W, 4.48 × 10(-8) W/cm(2), 548 nm), and UV light (1.94 × 10(5) A/W, 1.59 × 10(-8) W/cm(2), 372 nm), respectively. The responsivity of this broadband photon sensor was enhanced further by as much as 60% when the device was subjected to a -0.38% compressive strain. This is because the strain induced a piezopotential in ZnO, which tunes the barrier height at the ZnO-CdS heterojunction interface, leading to an optimized optoelectronic performance. This work demonstrates a promising application of piezo-phototronic effect in nanoheterojunction array based photon detectors.
authors.affiliation: School of Material Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0245, United States.
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Simiao
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Niu
authors.forename: Wenxi
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Guang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Xiaoling
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhong Lin
authors.initials: ZL
authors.lastname: Wang