{"title":"van der Waals Distributed Bragg Reflectors with Submicron\u0000Thickness for Enhanced WSe2 Photodetector Performance","authors":"Sumei Wang,Nanjie Jiang,Zijie Lai,Jianhua Ren,Xiangbin Shen,Daiquan Zhang,Jiaxin Gong,Pengcheng Cai,Yizhen Gan,Guangxu Liu,Huijuan Zhao,Zehua Hu,Li Gao","doi":"10.1021/acsphotonics.6c01447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.6c01447","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) are essential passive photonic components for spectral selectivity and optical field confinement, yet high-performance DBRs remain largely absent from the van der Waals (vdW) materials platform. Here we report a submicron-thick vdW DBR composed of alternating multilayer tungsten disulfide (WS2) and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), establishing a compact passive optical building block for all-vdW photonics. Enabled by the large refractive-index contrast between multilayer WS2 and hBN, the 576 nm-thick DBR exhibits an experimental reflectance exceeding 97% and a stopband spanning 660 to 1060 nm. When integrated with tungsten diselenide (WSe2), the vdW DBR increases the layer-resolved absolute absorptance of the ∼4 nm WSe2 layer from 8% to 34% near the excitonic resonance, and photodetectors incorporating the DBR show an approximately 18.5-fold enhancement in responsivity at 750 nm relative to bare devices. Additional molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)/hBN DBR further demonstrates that the design is generalizable across transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD)/hBN material systems. These results show that layered vdW materials can serve not only as active optoelectronic media but also as high-performance passive photonic components, opening a route toward compact, integrable all-vdW optoelectronic and on-chip photonic platforms.","PeriodicalId":23,"journal":{"name":"ACS Photonics","volume":"182 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149150848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}