Ultrafast Solar‐Blind Ultraviolet Detection by Inorganic Perovskite CsPbX3 Quantum Dots Radial Junction Architecture

Inorganic CsPbX3 (X = Cl, Br, I, or hybrid among them) perovskite quantum dots (IPQDs) are promising building blocks for exploring high performance optoelectronic applications. In this work, the authors report a new hybrid structure that marries CsPbX3 IPQDs to silicon nanowires (SiNWs) radial junction structures to achieve ultrafast and highly sensitive ultraviolet (UV) detection in solar-blind spectrum. A compact and uniform deployment of CsPbX3 IPQDs upon the sidewall of low-reflective 3D radial junctions enables a strong light field excitation and efficient down-conversion of the ultraviolet incidences, which are directly tailored into emission bands optimized for a rapid photodetection in surrounding ultrathin radial p-i-n junctions. A fast solar-blind UV detection has been demonstrated in this hybrid IPQD-NW detectors, with rise/fall response time scales of 0.48/1.03 ms and a high responsivity of 54 mA W-1 @200 nm (or 32 mA W-1 @270 nm), without the need of any external power supply. These results pave the way toward large area manufacturing of high performance Si-based perovskite UV detectors in a scalable and low-cost procedure.

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