journal article·2025-11

Anisotropic Ga 2 O 3 Nanograting with Photonic and Band Engineering Enables High‐Sensitivity Solar‐Blind Photodetectors

Jinjin Wang, Zheyang Chen, Xueqiang Ji, Zeng Liu, Haochen Zheng, Yuanyuan Liu, Shan Li, Weihua Tang, Peigang Li

Advanced Optical Materials· Volume 13· Issue 32
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Abstract

Abstract Ga2O3‐based solar‐blind UV photodetectors exhibit intrinsic solar‐blind absorption and radiation tolerance but remain limited by surface leakage current, inefficient photon‐carrier coupling, and weak polarization sensitivity. Herein, a nanograting photonic structure is introduced to modulate carrier dynamics through photonic and band engineering. This design strengthens photon‐carrier coupling and tunes interfacial energy band structure to enhance photoconductive gain and suppress dark current. Nanograting structure effectively reduces dark current through an upshifted interfacial conduction band, while simultaneously intensifying light absorption via reduced reflectance and transmittance. Its inherent anisotropy enables polarization discrimination without external optics or phase tuning approaches. The optimized device achieves an ultra‐low dark current of 1.8 × 10 −14 A, a responsivity of 174.8 A W −1 , a specific detectivity of 1.7 × 10 14 Jones (a 1209.3% improvement), and a high polarization ratio of 570%, remarkably surpassing planar Ga2O3 solar‐blind photodetectors (SBPDs). This work demonstrates a novel strategy through photonic‐electronic integration for high‐sensitivity, low‐noise SBPDs with excellent polarization response.
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OpenAlex topics: Ga2O3 and related materials · ZnO doping and properties · Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

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Affiliations

State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications & School of Integrated Circuits Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing 100876 China

College of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Nanjing 210023 China

School of Electronic Information Engineering Electronic‐Photonic Smart Sensing Device R&D Team Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Intelligent Communication and Sensing and Signal Processing Inner Mongolia University Hohhot 010021 China

The Engineering Research Center for Semiconductor Integrated Technology Institute of Semiconductors Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100083 China

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China · China Scholarship Council · Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province

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