A Novel Phototransistor Device with Dual Active Layers Composited of CsPbBr3 and ZnO Quantum Dots

Abstract

Taking advantage of a large light absorption coefficient, long charge carrier diffusion length and low-cost solution processing, all-inorganic halides perovskite CsPbBr₃ quantum dots (QDs) are combined with a ZnO QD film to construct a high-performance photodetector. In this work, a novel photodetector device based on transistor structure with dual active layers composed of CsPbBr₃ and ZnO film is proposed. In this structure, CsPbBr₃ film functions as the light-absorbing layer and ZnO film acts as the conducting layer. Owing to the high electron mobility and hole-blocking nature of the ZnO QDs film, the photo-induced electron-hole pairs can be separated efficiently. As a result, the device exhibits high performance with response of 43.5 A/W, high detection up to 5.02 × 10¹¹ Jones and on/off ratio of 5.6 × 10⁴ under 365 nm light illumination. Compared with the ZnO-only phototransistor (the photodetector with the structure of transistor) the performance of the CsPbBr₃ phototransistor showed significant improvement, which is superior to the majority of photodetectors prepared by perovskite. This work demonstrates that the ZnO QDs film can be applied in the photodetector device as a functional conducting layer, and we believe that the hybrid CsPbBr₃/ZnO phototransistor would promote the development of low-cost and high-performance photodetectors.