A Highly Sensitive Single Crystal Perovskite-Graphene Hybrid Vertical Photodetector

Organolead trihalide perovskites have attracted significant attention for optoelectronic applications due to their excellent physical properties in the past decade. Generally, both grain boundaries in perovskite films and the device structure play key roles in determining the device performance, especially for horizontal-structured device. Here, the first optimized vertical-structured photodetector with the perovskite single crystal MAPbBr₃ as the light absorber and graphene as the transport layer is shown. The hybrid device combines strong photoabsorption characteristics of perovskite and high carrier mobility of flexible graphene, exhibits excellent photoresponse performance with high photoresponsivity (≈1017.1 A W^-1 ) and high photodetectivity (≈2.02 × 10¹³ Jones) in a low light intensity (0.66 mW cm^-2 ) under the actuations of 3 V bias and laser irradiation at 532 nm. In particular, an ultrahigh photoconductive gain of ≈2.37 × 10³ is attained because of fast charge transfer in the graphene and large recombination lifetime in the perovskite single crystal. The vertical architecture combining perovskite crystal with highly conductive graphene offers opportunities to fulfill the synergistic effect of perovskite and 2D materials, is thus promising for developing high-performance electronic and optoelectronic devices.