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Surface Microstructure Engineering in MAPbBr₃ Microsheets for Performance-Enhanced Photodetectors.

Pengbin Gui¹, Yanming Sun¹, Liangpan Yang¹

¹Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Industry-Education-Research Institute of Advanced Materials and Technology for Integrated Circuits, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui 230601, People's Republic of China.

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|December 12, 2023

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Surface microstructure engineering of metal halide perovskite photodetectors significantly reduces light reflection and enhances light absorption. This leads to high-performance devices with superior sensitivity for weak light detection.

Keywords:

MAPbBr3 photodetector hemisphere arrays microstructure reflective loss surface engineering

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Area of Science:

Optoelectronics
Materials Science
Nanotechnology

Background:

Metal halide perovskite photodetectors are promising optoelectronic devices.
Microstructuring perovskites facilitates integration with complementary metal-oxide semiconductors for miniaturized imaging.
Reducing light reflection from microstructural perovskites is crucial for performance.

Purpose of the Study:

To engineer the surface microstructure of MAPbBr3 microsheets to reduce light reflection and improve light absorption.
To fabricate perovskite photodetectors with enhanced performance through surface microstructure modification.
To investigate the impact of different surface morphologies on photodetector characteristics.

Main Methods:

Fabrication of MAPbBr3 microsheets with flat, upright hemisphere arrays, and inverted hemisphere arrays (IHAs) using a microstructure template-assisted space confinement process.
Characterization of light absorption capacity for different surface morphologies.
Performance evaluation of photodetectors based on IHA MAPbBr3, including dark current, responsivity, speed, noise, and specific detectivity.

Main Results:

Inverted hemisphere arrays (IHAs) exhibited significantly higher light absorption compared to other structures.
IHA photodetectors demonstrated excellent figures of merit: low dark current, decent responsivity, and fast speed.
The noise level of IHA photodetectors was approximately 10^-13 A/sqrt(Hz), enabling superior sensitivity for weak light detection.
Specific detectivity reached up to 10^11 Jones.

Conclusions:

Surface microstructure engineering is an effective strategy for reducing light reflection and enhancing light absorption in perovskite photodetectors.
The IHA surface morphology significantly improves photodetector performance, leading to high sensitivity and detectivity.
This simple, low-cost approach offers a pathway to advance nano-/micro-optoelectronic device performance.