Position-dependent and millimetre-range photodetection in phototransistors with micrometre-scale graphene on SiC
Open Access
- 10 April 2017
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Nanotechnology
- Vol. 12 (7), 668-674
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.46
Abstract
The extraordinary optical and electronic properties of graphene make it a promising component of high-performance photodetectors. However, in typical graphene-based photodetectors demonstrated to date, the photoresponse only comes from specific locations near graphene over an area much smaller than the device size. For many optoelectronic device applications, it is desirable to obtain the photoresponse and positional sensitivity over a much larger area. Here, we report the spatial dependence of the photoresponse in backgated graphene field-effect transistors (GFET) on silicon carbide (SiC) substrates by scanning a focused laser beam across the GFET. The GFET shows a nonlocal photoresponse even when the SiC substrate is illuminated at distances greater than 500 µm from the graphene. The photoresponsivity and photocurrent can be varied by more than one order of magnitude depending on the illumination position. Our observations are explained with a numerical model based on charge transport of photoexcited carriers in the substrate.Keywords
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