Tuning Light Emission of a Pressure-Sensitive Silicon/ZnO Nanowires Heterostructure Matrix through Piezo-phototronic Effects

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• 作者：Mengxiao Chen ; Caofeng Pan ; Taiping Zhang ; Xiaoyi Li ; Renrong Liang ; Zhong Lin Wang
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 28, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：10
• 期：6
• 页码：6074-6079
• 全文大小：454K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1936-086X

文摘

Based on white light emission at silicon (Si)/ZnO hetrerojunction, a pressure-sensitive Si/ZnO nanowires heterostructure matrix light emitting diode (LED) array is developed. The light emission intensity of a single heterostructure LED is tuned by external strain: when the applied stress keeps increasing, the emission intensity first increases and then decreases with a maximum value at a compressive strain of 0.15–0.2%. This result is attributed to the piezo-phototronic effect, which can efficiently modulate the LED emission intensity by utilizing the strain-induced piezo-polarization charges. It could tune the energy band diagrams at the junction area and regulate the optoelectronic processes such as charge carriers generation, separation, recombination, and transport. This study achieves tuning silicon based devices through piezo-phototronic effect.