Organo-photoconductive Materials

Photoconductive terahertz generation from textured semiconductor materials

Photoconductive (PC) terahertz (THz) emitters are often limited by ohmic loss and Joule heating-as these effects can lead to thermal runaway and premature device breakdown. To address this, the proposed work introduces PC THz emitters based on textured InP materials. The enhanced surface recombination and decreased charge-carrier lifetimes of the textured InP materials reduce residual photocurr...

Interfacial engineering of organic nanofibril heterojunctions into highly photoconductive materials.

Photoconductive organic materials have gained increasing interest in various optoelectronics, such as sensors, photodetectors, and photovoltaics. However, the availability of such materials is very limited due to their intrinsic low charge carrier density and mobility. Here, we present a simple approach based on nanofibril heterojunction to achieve high photoconductivity with fast photoresponse...

Carbon Nanotubes Influence on Spectral, Photoconductive, Photorefractive and Dynamic Properties of the Optical Materials

375GM-bandwidth photoconductive detector

Much progress has been made over the past several years in the development of high-speed photodiode detectors. A detection bandwidth of 105 GHz together with a responsivity of 0.1 A# have been reported for a metalsemiconductor-metal (MSM) photodiode.’ The most common approach to increasing the bandwidth in MSM photodiodes (at least up to 100 GHz) is to shorten the carrier transit time by reduci...

Gallium Nitride Photoconductive Detectors

Since 1994, the Applied Physics Laboratory has been collaborating with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to develop photodetectors based on gallium nitride and aluminum gallium nitride material produced in the Milton S. Eisenhower Research and Technology Development Center. This article describes the results of our collaboration and highlights the development of gallium nitride photodetectors wi...