Jixiang Jing;Yumeng Luo;Yicheng Wang;Zhongqiang Wang;Qi Wang;Kwai Hei Li;Zhiqin Chu
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Abstract
In this letter, we present scalable and flexible diamond UV detectors. A 2-inch, 1-$\mu $ m-thick diamond film is exfoliated from its heteroepitaxial silicon substrate and transferred to a soft PDMS substrate, forming the foundation for the flexible detector. Measurement under strains of 0%, 0.6%, and 1.2% reveals a decrease in the bandgap of diamond film from 5.31 eV to 5.18 eV and 5.06 eV, respectively. This strain-induced narrowing of the bandgap improves the responsivity of diamond detectors under UV illumination. The elastic strain engineering on diamonds, being simple and effective, provides a new route to improve the performance of diamond UV detectors, promising to accelerate the development of next-generation flexible diamond electronics.
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IEEE Electron Device Letters publishes original and significant contributions relating to the theory, modeling, design, performance and reliability of electron and ion integrated circuit devices and interconnects, involving insulators, metals, organic materials, micro-plasmas, semiconductors, quantum-effect structures, vacuum devices, and emerging materials with applications in bioelectronics, biomedical electronics, computation, communications, displays, microelectromechanics, imaging, micro-actuators, nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, power ICs and micro-sensors.