Ultrathin Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskite Heterojunction for Sensitive Photodetection

Abstract

Thanks to their unique optical and electric properties, 2D materials have attracted a lot of interest for optoelectronic applications. Here, the emerging 2D materials, organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites with van der Waals interlayer interaction (Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites), are synthesized and characterized. Photodetectors based on the few-layer Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite show good photoresponsivity as well as good detectivity. In order to further improve the photoresponse performance, 2D MoS₂ is chosen to construct the perovskite-MoS₂ heterojunction. The performance of the hybrid photodetector is largely improved with 6 and 2 orders of magnitude enhancement for photoresponsivity (10⁴ A W^-1 ) and detectivity (4 × 10¹⁰ Jones), respectively, which demonstrates the facile charge separation at the interface between perovskite and MoS₂ . Furthermore, the contribution of back gate tuning is proved with a greatly reduced dark current. The results demonstrated here will open up a new field for the investigation of 2D perovskites for optoelectronic applications.

Keywords: 2D materials; Ruddlesden-Popper; organic-inorganic perovskites; photodetectors.