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Abstract
This work focuses on the development of a heterostructure ultraviolet photodetector constructed using tungsten oxide (WO3) nanosheets (NSs) and zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles (NPs), fabricated on Si/SiO2 substrates. For synthesis, a simple, economically feasible hydrothermal for WO3 and sol-gel synthesis approach for ZnO was used. The WO3 NSs/ZnO NPs heterostructure thin-film UV photodetector demonstrates excellent performance, including high responsivity (R), and detectivity (D) of 97.55 A/W, and 6.5 × 1011 Jones, respectively, when exposed to UV light (λ ∼ 365 nm). The working mechanism of the fabricated photodetector explained using a suitable energy band diagram. The WO3 NSs/ZnO NPs heterostructure thin-film UV photodetector exhibits a satisfactory response time, with a rise time of 5.35 s and a fall time of 10.24 s.
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Optical Materials has an open access mirror journal Optical Materials: X, sharing the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review.
The purpose of Optical Materials is to provide a means of communication and technology transfer between researchers who are interested in materials for potential device applications. The journal publishes original papers and review articles on the design, synthesis, characterisation and applications of optical materials.
OPTICAL MATERIALS focuses on:
• Optical Properties of Material Systems;
• The Materials Aspects of Optical Phenomena;
• The Materials Aspects of Devices and Applications.
Authors can submit separate research elements describing their data to Data in Brief and methods to Methods X.