Innovative carbon nanotube-silicon large area photodetector

Abstract

We report on a new photodetector fabricated using carbon nanostructures grown on a silicon substrate. This device exhibits low noise, a good conversion efficiency of photons into electrical current and a good signal linearity in a wide range of radiation wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet to infrared at room temperature. The maximum quantum efficiency of 37% at 880 nm has been measured without signal amplification. Such innovative devices can be easily produced on large scales by Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) through a relatively inexpensive chemical process, which allows large sensitive areas from a few mm2 up to hundreds of cm2 to be covered.


Autore Pugliese

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Anno di pubblicazione

2012

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1748-0221

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12

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