Plasmon-enhanced Reduced Graphene Oxide Photodetector with Monometallic of Au and Ag Nanoparticles at VIS-NIR Region

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2021 Oct 5

PMID 34608217

Citations 5

Authors

Nurul Syazwani Rohizat

Atiena Husna Abdullah Ripain

Chin Seong Lim

Chee Leong Tan

Rozalina Zakaria

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Abstract

Hybrids plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) and unique 2D graphene significantly enhanced the photoresponse of the photodetectors. The metallic NPs that exhibit localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) improves strong light absorption, scattering and localized electromagnetic field by the incident photons depending on the optimum condition of NPs. We report high-performance photodetectors based on reduced graphene oxide (rGO) integrated with monometallic of Au and Ag nanoparticles via a familiar fabrication technique using an electron beam evaporation machine. Under 680 nm illumination of light, our rGO photodetector exhibited the highest performance for Au-rGO with the highest responsivity of 67.46 AW and the highest specific detectivity (2.39 × 10 Jones). Meanwhile, Ag-rGO achieved the highest responsivity of 17.23 AW, specific detectivity (7.17 × 10 Jones) at 785 nm. The response time are 0.146 µs and 0.135 µs for Au-rGO and Ag-rGO respectively for both wavelengths. The proposed photodetector with combining monometallic and graphene provide a new strategy to construct reliable and next-generation optoelectronic devices at VIS-NIR region.

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