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Broadband light absorption and photoresponse enhancement in monolayer WSe2 crystal coupled to Sb2O3 microresonators

Show Author's Information Kun Ye1,§,  Lixuan Liu1,3,§,  Congpu Mu1,2( ),  Kun Zhai1( ),  Shiliang Guo4,  Bochong Wang1,2,  Anmin Nie1,  Shuhan Meng4,  Fusheng Wen1,  Jianyong Xiang1,  Tianyu Xue1,  Ming Kang5,  Yongji Gong3,  Yongjun Tian1,  Zhongyuan Liu1( )
Center for High Pressure Science (CHiPS), State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science & Technology, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Hebei Key Laboratory of Microstructure Materials Physics, School of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
School of Electrical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
College of Physics and Materials Science, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China

§ Kun Ye and Lixuan Liu contributed equally to this work.

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transition metal dichalcogenides, photodetectors, broad bandwidth, Sb2O3 optical microresonator , enhanced absorption
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Ye K, Liu L, Mu C, et al. Broadband light absorption and photoresponse enhancement in monolayer WSe2 crystal coupled to Sb2O3 microresonators. Nano Research, 2022, 15(5): 4653-4660. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-4033-4
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Monolayer (1L) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have been attracting tremendous interest in recent years as promising candidate materials in atomic-scale optoelectronic devices due to their direct band gaps (1.5–2.2 eV) and strong light–matter interactions. Unfortunately, their practical applications are limited by low visible light absorption stemming from atomic thickness and negligible infrared response. Here, we report the triangular Sb2O3 microresonators in wide thickness and lateral size distributions grown on 1L TMDCs and their created significant broadband enhancement of light adsorption and photoresponse in 1L WSe2 crystal via coexisting Fabry–Perot and whispering gallery type resonances. As an example of demonstration, 1L WSe2 crystal coupled to Sb2O3 microresonators with widely distributed sizes exhibits the enhanced visible light absorption by up to 5 folds and the simultaneously extended near infrared (NIR) one of more than 50%. For application of 1L WSe2 in photodetection, incorporation of Sb2O3 microresonators leads to significantly enhanced visible light responsivity by ~ 104 order and expanded NIR one of more than 400 mA·W−1. Similar results have been observed in the other 1L W(Mo) dichalcogenides coupled to Sb2O3 microresonators. This work provides a new route for development of the high-performance monolayer TMDCs-based optoelectronic devices.


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Broadband light absorption and photoresponse enhancement in monolayer WSe2 crystal coupled to Sb2O3 microresonators

Show Author's information Kun Ye1,§, Lixuan Liu1,3,§, Congpu Mu1,2( ), Kun Zhai1( ), Shiliang Guo4, Bochong Wang1,2, Anmin Nie1, Shuhan Meng4, Fusheng Wen1, Jianyong Xiang1, Tianyu Xue1, Ming Kang5, Yongji Gong3, Yongjun Tian1, Zhongyuan Liu1( )
Center for High Pressure Science (CHiPS), State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science & Technology, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
Hebei Key Laboratory of Microstructure Materials Physics, School of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
School of Electrical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
College of Physics and Materials Science, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China

§ Kun Ye and Lixuan Liu contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Monolayer (1L) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have been attracting tremendous interest in recent years as promising candidate materials in atomic-scale optoelectronic devices due to their direct band gaps (1.5–2.2 eV) and strong light–matter interactions. Unfortunately, their practical applications are limited by low visible light absorption stemming from atomic thickness and negligible infrared response. Here, we report the triangular Sb2O3 microresonators in wide thickness and lateral size distributions grown on 1L TMDCs and their created significant broadband enhancement of light adsorption and photoresponse in 1L WSe2 crystal via coexisting Fabry–Perot and whispering gallery type resonances. As an example of demonstration, 1L WSe2 crystal coupled to Sb2O3 microresonators with widely distributed sizes exhibits the enhanced visible light absorption by up to 5 folds and the simultaneously extended near infrared (NIR) one of more than 50%. For application of 1L WSe2 in photodetection, incorporation of Sb2O3 microresonators leads to significantly enhanced visible light responsivity by ~ 104 order and expanded NIR one of more than 400 mA·W−1. Similar results have been observed in the other 1L W(Mo) dichalcogenides coupled to Sb2O3 microresonators. This work provides a new route for development of the high-performance monolayer TMDCs-based optoelectronic devices.

Keywords: transition metal dichalcogenides, photodetectors, broad bandwidth, Sb2O3 optical microresonator , enhanced absorption

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Received: 02 October 2021
Revised: 25 November 2021
Accepted: 30 November 2021
Published: 14 January 2022
Issue date: May 2022

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51732010, 51972280, and 51801175), and Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (No. E2019203233).

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