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High-Quality Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ Single Crystalline Films on Flexible Substrates and Bendable Photodetectors |
| Yu-Cong Liu1,4, Jia-Dong Chen1,3, Hui-Yong Deng1**, Gu-Jin Hu1, Xiao-Shuang Chen1, Ning Dai1,2** |
1National Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083
2Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Photovolatic Science and Engineering, Changzhou 213164
3Changzhou Institute of Optoelectronic Technology, Changzhou 213164
4University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049
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Yu-Cong Liu, Jia-Dong Chen, Hui-Yong Deng et al 2016 Chin. Phys. Lett. 33 108102 |
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Abstract Recently, great efforts have been made in the fabrication of arbitrary warped devices to satisfy the requirement of wearable and lightweight electronic products. Direct growth of high crystalline quality films on flexible substrates is the most desirable method to fabricate flexible devices owing to the advantage of simple and compatible preparation technology with current semiconductor devices, while it is a very challenging work, and usually amorphous, polycrystalline or discontinuous single crystalline films are achieved. Here we demonstrate the direct growth of high-quality Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ single crystalline films on flexible polyimide substrates by the modified hot wall epitaxy technique. Experimental results reveal that adjacent crystallites are coherently coalesced to form a continuous film, although amounts of disoriented crystallites are generated due to fast growth rate. By inserting a quartz filter into the growth tube, the number density of disoriented crystallites is effectively reduced owing to the improved spiral interaction. Furthermore, flexible Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ photoconductors are fabricated and exhibit strong near-infrared photoconductive response under different degrees of bending, which also confirms the obtained flexible films suitable for electronic applications.
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Received: 25 May 2016
Published: 27 October 2016
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| PACS: |
81.05.Bx
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(Metals, semimetals, and alloys)
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81.07.Bc
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(Nanocrystalline materials)
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68.37.Hk
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(Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) (including EBIC))
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73.50.Pz
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(Photoconduction and photovoltaic effects)
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| Fund: Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2012CB619200, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 61290304, 11074265 and 11174307, the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai under Grant No 16ZR1441200, and the Frontier Science Research Project (Key Programs) of Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No QYZDJ-SSW-SLH018. |
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