“…Furthermore, the rise/fall times of our device are determined to be 1.5/5.5, 35/77, and 54/132 μs, respectively, under 980 nm, 1.55 μm, and 2.2 μm light illumination (Figure f). Additionally, the fast response speed is not only superior to that of the control devices of graphene/Si Schottky junction (42/112 μs) and PdTe 2 /Si Schottky junction without graphene top contact (8.5/38 μs) under 980 nm light illumination in Figure S9, but also surpassing perovskite or 2D material-based IR photodetectors. − In Figure g, photoresponse of the device to 980 nm pulsed light signal with different frequencies yields a large 3 dB bandwidth of ∼0.50 MHz ( f 3dB : photoresponse decreases to 0.707 of maximum value of device), which is 1–2 orders of magnitude larger than the values of control devices (PdTe 2 /Si ∼ 45 kHz, graphene/Si ∼ 5 kHz), and even higher than most of IR photodetectors based on 2D materials, ,,− perovskite, ,,, and 2D-3D vdW heterostructures, ,− as summarized in Figure h. Actually, the response speed can be further enhanced by improving the crystal quality of PdTe 2 and optimizing the device structure with reduction of the effective device area and thickness of the Si substrate.…”