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      Highly efficient gate-tunable photocurrent generation in vertical heterostructures of layered materials.

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          Layered materials of graphene and MoS₂, for example, have recently emerged as an exciting material system for future electronics and optoelectronics. Vertical integration of layered materials can enable the design of novel electronic and photonic devices. Here, we report highly efficient photocurrent generation from vertical heterostructures of layered materials. We show that vertically stacked graphene-MoS₂-graphene and graphene-MoS₂-metal junctions can be created with a broad junction area for efficient photon harvesting. The weak electrostatic screening effect of graphene allows the integration of single or dual gates under and/or above the vertical heterostructure to tune the band slope and photocurrent generation. We demonstrate that the amplitude and polarity of the photocurrent in the gated vertical heterostructures can be readily modulated by the electric field of an external gate to achieve a maximum external quantum efficiency of 55% and internal quantum efficiency up to 85%. Our study establishes a method to control photocarrier generation, separation and transport processes using an external electric field.

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          Journal
          Nat Nanotechnol
          Nature nanotechnology
          Springer Science and Business Media LLC
          1748-3395
          1748-3387
          Dec 2013
          : 8
          : 12
          Affiliations
          [1 ] 1] Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA [2] Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea [3] Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea.
          Article
          nnano.2013.219 NIHMS644357
          10.1038/nnano.2013.219
          4249654
          24162001
          dd055b14-ddc8-4504-b0f5-4095631c0b1e
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