Influence of electron injection on the photoresponse of ZnO homojunction diodes

O. Lopatiuk‐Tirpak, Leonid Chernyak, L. J. Mandalapu, Zheng Yang, Jianlin Liu, Konstantin Gartsman, Yishay Feldman, Zinovy Dashevsky

Applied Physics Letters · 2006 · 33 citations · 10 references

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Forward bias electron injection into the p side of a p-n homojunction was shown to result in an improved response of the ZnO photodiodes. Injection of about 25C of charge yielded a nearly 2.5-fold increase of photocurrent at 350nm. This improvement was correlated with the increase of the diffusion length of minority electrons in p-type ZnO:Sb as determined by electron beam induced current measurements. It is suggested that the increase of the diffusion length is related to the carrier trapping on nonionized acceptor levels.

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