Black phosphorus (BP) is a promising material for ultrafast and broadband photodetection because of its narrow bandgap from 0.35 eV (bulk) to 1.8 eV (monolayer) and high carrier mobility. Although photodetectors based on BP with different configurations have been reported, high photosensitivity was mostly observed in the visible range. A highly efficient BP-based infrared photodetector operated in the telecom spectral range, especially at 1550 nm, has not been demonstrated. Here, we report a Schottky-type photodetector based on thin BP flakes, operating in a broad spectral range from visible (635 nm) to infrared (1550 nm). A responsivity as high as 230 A•W −1 was achieved at 1550 nm with a source-drain bias of 1 V. The rise time is 4.8 ms, and the fall time is 6.8 ms. Under light illumination and external bias, the Schottky barrier between the BP and metal was reduced, leading to efficient photocurrent extraction. The unprecedented performance of the BP photodetector indicates intriguing potential for sensing, imaging, and optical communication.
Layer-by-layer (LbL) self-assembled polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) films are a simple yet elegant bottom-up technology to create films at the nano−microscale. This low-cost technology has been widely used as a universal functionalization technique on a broad spectrum of substrates. Biomolecules under investigation can be incubated onto films based on complementary charge interactions between the films and biomolecules. There is a great demand for developing an ultralow-cost biosensing device, which can optimally enhance the fluorescence signal of the adsorbed biomolecules from the traditional labeled sensing platforms. In this work, we have incorporated a blend of the conventional metal enhanced fluorescence technology and the PEM as a dielectric spacer and functionalized film, coated on an aluminum paper (tape)-based substrate. These device has been found to be capable of holding biomolecules in three-dimensional PEM space. The devices fabricated by the proposed spray LbL technique provide significant fluorescence signal enhancement by holding a relatively higher mass per volume of the adsorbed biomolecules, when compared to traditional spin-and dip-coating techniques. Interestingly, our proposed device has expressed a fluorescence enhancement factor, which is 9 times higher than PEM-functionalized glass-based devices. To demonstrate the practical utility of our devices, we also compared our devices to Whatman FAST slides. Our experimental fluorescence results are almost comparable to Whatman FAST slides. Such PEM devices fabricated on top of low-cost aluminum tape using a spray LbL technique give new insights into the future development of ultralow-cost, high-throughput, and disposable lab-on-chip diagnostic applications.
In recent years, polaritons in two-dimensional (2D) materials have gained intensive research interests and significant progress due to their extraordinary properties of light-confinement, tunable carrier concentrations by gating and low loss absorption that leads to long polariton lifetimes. With additional advantages of biocompatibility, label-free, chemical identification of biomolecules through their vibrational fingerprints, graphene and related 2D materials can be adapted as excellent platforms for future polaritonic biosensor applications. Extreme spatial light confinement in 2D materials based polaritons supports atto-molar concentration or single molecule detection. In this article, we will review the state-of-the-art infrared polaritonic-based biosensors. We first discuss the concept of polaritons, then the biosensing properties of polaritons on various 2D materials, then lastly the impending applications and future opportunities of infrared polaritonic biosensors for medical and healthcare applications.
Photodetector based on intrinsic graphene can operate over a broad wavelength range with ultrafast response, but its responsivity is much lower than commercial silicon photodiode. The combination of graphene with...
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