Growth of Ga$_{\bm 2}$O $_{\bm 3}$ Nanowires and the Fabrication of Solar-Blind Photodetector

Abstract

The authors report the growth of nanowires by heating the GaN/sapphire template. It was found that density, average length, and average diameter of the nanowires all increased as we increased the grown temperature. It was also found that β-Ga <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> O <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> nanowires with good crystal quality could be achieved only at high temperatures (i.e., 1050 and 1100 °C). Solar-blind β-Ga <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> O <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> nanowire photodetector was also fabricated by depositing interdigitated contact electrodes. With an incident light wavelength of 255 nm and an applied bias of 5 V, it was found that measured responsivity of the photodetector was 3.72×10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-1</sup> mA/W.