Issue 3, 2023

Sulfurization engineering of single-zone CVD vertical and horizontal MoS2 on p-GaN heterostructures for self-powered UV photodetectors

Abstract

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has been attracting considerable attention due to its excellent electrical and optical properties. We successfully grew high-quality, large-area and uniform few-layer (FL)-MoS2 on p-doped gallium nitride (p-GaN) using a simplified sulfurization technique by the single-zone CVD of a Mo seed layer via E-beam evaporation. Tuning the sulfurization parameters, namely temperature and duration, has been discovered to be an effective strategy for improving MoS2 orientation (horizontally aligned and vertically aligned) and quality, which affects photodetector (PD) performance. The increase in the sulfurization temperature to 850 °C results in improved structural quality and crystallite size. However, a prolonged sulfurization duration of 60 minutes caused the degradation of the film quality. The close lattice match between p-GaN and MoS2 contributes to the excellent quality growth of deposited MoS2. Following this, an n-MoS2/p-GaN heterostructure PD was successfully built by a MoS2 position-selectivity method. We report a highly sensitive and self-powered GaN/MoS2 p–n heterojunction PD with a relatively high responsivity of 14.3 A W−1, a high specific detectivity of 1.12 × 1013 Jones, and a fast response speed of 8.3/13.4 μs (20 kHz) under a UV light of 355 nm at zero-bias voltage. Our PD exhibits superior performance to that of the previously reported MoS2/GaN p–n PD. Our findings suggest a more efficient and straightforward approach to building high-performance self-powered UV PDs.

Graphical abstract: Sulfurization engineering of single-zone CVD vertical and horizontal MoS2 on p-GaN heterostructures for self-powered UV photodetectors

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 10 2022
Accepted
26 12 2022
First published
10 1 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 879-892

Sulfurization engineering of single-zone CVD vertical and horizontal MoS2 on p-GaN heterostructures for self-powered UV photodetectors

N. '. A. Zulkifli, N. H. Zahir, A. H. Abdullah Ripain, S. M. Said and R. Zakaria, Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 879 DOI: 10.1039/D2NA00756H

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