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Large-Scale Transparent Molybdenum Disulfide Plasmonic
Photodetector Using Split Bull Eye Structure
Adhikary Sourav, Zhiwen Li, Zhonghui Huang, Venkata Divakar Botcha, Cong Hu,
Jin-Ping Ao, Yangfan Peng, Hao-Chung Kuo, Jing Wu, Xinke Liu,* and Kah-Wee Ang*
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201800461
for use in photodetector and phototran-
sistor.
[4,5]
The band gap of MoS
2
varies
from 1.2 to 1.8 eV when the thickness
is scaled from bulk to single layer, which
allows optical detection from ultraviolet
to near-infrared wavelength regime. Apart
from mechanical exfoliation of MoS
2
using
scotch tape,
[4]
various techniques have
been reported to synthesize high-quality
MoS
2
films which include dilute aqueous
solution,
[6]
liquid exfoliation,
[7]
physical
vapor deposition,
[8]
sputtering,
[9]
colloidal
MoS
2
quantum dot heterojunctions,
[10]
and
more recently chemical vapor deposition
(CVD).
[11–13]
Wafer scale epitaxy growth
of MoS
2
was also reported using CVD,
[14]
where homogenous large-scale MoS
2
films
can be grown which is suitable to demon-
strate an array of detector and subsequently
realize an imager. However, it is very chal-
lenging to grow high-quality, uniform, and
defect-free MoS
2
film via CVD technique.
To achieve detector array with superior performance for next-
generation imaging application, the use of high-quality material
was not the only solution. Apart from growth engineering, it is
also important to consider different device design to push the
performance to the next level. Use of plasmonic nanostructures
is deemed promising to increase optical absorption by coupling
with the incident light at the wavelength of surface plasmon res-
onance for enhancing the overall device performance. To date,
various plasmonic structures have been explored to enhance the
performance of MoS
2
photodetector/phototransistor.
[15–18]
Plas-
monic nanostructures were also employed in MoS
2
-graphene
heterostructures.
[19]
Hybrid 2D/3D MoS
2
nanocrystal on Si plat-
form with superior junction characteristics were reported by
Mukherjee et al.
[20]
Miao et al. reported few layer MoS
2
photo-
transistor with Au nanostructure array operating at 532 nm
wavelength.
[21]
Recently, Li et al. reported plasmonic photo-
detector operating in between 300 and 800 nm by using Au @
MoS
2
core shell heterostructure which achieved a high respon-
sivity value of 22.3 A W
−1
.
[22]
However, full detector characteriza-
tion including noise and detectivity has yet to be reported, which
are critical metrics for the imaging system. Moreover, most
reports are employing gold (Au) and silver (Ag) as the two
widely used plasmonic metals, which are incompatible mate-
rials with the mainstream complementary metal-oxide-semi-
conductor (CMOS) manufacturing technology. Apart from Au
and Ag, aluminum (Al) has been reported as a viable plasmonic
metal for its useful range in the visible wavelengths.
[23]
A high performance photodetector array on transparent substrate is highly
sought after for enabling next-generation imaging technology at the visible wave-
lengths. 2D materials such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS
2
) are attractive for
such application owing to its superior optoelectronic properties and transparency
when scaled to atomic thinness. Here, direct growth of MoS
2
on centimeter-scale
transparent Al
2
O
3
substrate is reported using a high yield and scalable chemical
vapor deposition approach. This enables a large area photodetector array to be
demonstrated, wherein aluminum split bull eye (SBE) plasmonic structure is inte-
grated to achieve further performance boost due to surface plasmon resonance
(SPR) effect. For a wavelength of 405 nm, the plasmonic MoS
2
detector achieves
an ultralow noise equivalent power of ≈6.2 × 10
–14
W Hz
−1/2
and a high respon-
sivity of 7.26 A W
−1
at a small bias of 1.0 V, which is more than 6× larger than the
reference detector due to SPR effect. Finite-difference time-domain simulation
confirms a higher concentration of optical field distribution at the center of the
SBE structure, which is responsible for the enhancement of photocurrent and
sensitivity even at low-light condition.
Dr. A. Sourav, Prof. K.-W. Ang
Electrical and Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore
21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 117576, Singapore
E-mail: eleakw@nus.edu.sg
Z. Li, Z. Huang, Dr. V. D. Botcha, C. Hu, Prof. J.-P. Ao, Y. Peng, Dr. X. Liu
College of Materials Science and Engineering
Shenzhen University
3688 Nanhai Ave, Shenzhen 518060, P. R. China
E-mail: xkliu@szu.edu.cn
Prof. H.-C. Kuo
Department of Photonics and Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering
National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
Dr. J. Wu
Institute of Materials research and Engineering (IMRE)
Singapore 138634, Singapore
Plasmonic Photodetectors
1. Int roduction
In recent years, molybdenum disulfide (MoS
2
) emerges as a key
member in 2D transition metal dichalcogenide family which
has attracted increasing interests for numerous applications in
the field of nanoelectronics, environment studies, sensing, bio-
medical engineering, and etc.
[1–3]
By virtue of its direct band gap
property, multilayer and monolayer MoS
2
are promising material
Adv. Optical Mater. 2018, 1800461