Environmental-Friendly Ag₂S QD-Multilayer MoSe₂ van Der Waals Heterostructure for High-Performance Broadband Photodetection

Broadband photodetectors have drawn intensive attention owing to their wide application prospects in optical communication, imaging, astronomy, and so on. Two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are considered as highly potential candidates for photodetection applications, benefiting from their excellent photoelectric properties. However, most of the photodetectors based on TMDs suffer from low performance in the near-infrared (NIR) region due to the weak optical absorption efficiency near their absorption band edge, which severely constrains their usage for broadband optoelectronics. Here, by taking advantage of the high absorption coefficient and environment-friendly property of Ag 2 S quantum dots (QDs), the hybrid of multilayer MoSe 2 /Ag 2 S QDs is demonstrated with a high-performance broadband photodetection capability (532–1270 nm). The favorable energy band alignment of MoSe 2 /Ag 2 S QDs facilitates effective separation and collection of photogenerated carriers, and the heterostructure device exhibits significant enhancement of performance compared to the bare MoSe 2 device. High responsivity, detectivity, and external quantum efficiency of 25.5 A/W, 1.45 × 10 11 Jones, and 1070% are obtained at a low working voltage of 1 V under 980 nm illumination. The responsivity of the device can reach up to 1.2 A/W at 1270 nm wavelength, which is competitive to the commercial NIR photodetectors. Meanwhile, broadband imaging capability is demonstrated. Our work may open up a facile and eco-friendly approach to construct high-performance broadband photodetectors for next-generation compact optoelectronic applications.