https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202226609010
Tunable photoconductive devices based on graphene/WSe2 heterostructures
Laboratory of Nanoscience for Energy Technologies (LNET), STI, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
* Corresponding author: giulia.tagliabue@epfl.ch
Published online: 13 October 2022
Optoelectronic tunability in van der Waals heterostructures is essential for their optoelectronic applications. In this work, tunable photoconductive properties were investigated in the heterostructures of WSe2 and monolayer graphene with different stacking orders on SiO2/Si substrates. Here, we demonstrated the effect of the material thickness of WSe2 and graphene on the interfacial charge transport, light absorption, and photoresponses. The results showed that the WSe2/graphene heterostructure exhibited positive photoconductivity after photoexcitation, while negative photoconductivity was observed in the graphene/WSe2 heterostructures. The tunable photoconductive behaviors provide promising potential applications of van der Waals heterostructures in optoelectronics. This work has guiding significance for the realization of stacking engineering in van der Waals heterostructures.
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