Affiliation: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002 P. R. China;2. State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002 P. R. China These authors contributed equally to this work.;3. State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002 P. R. China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 China |
Abstract: | Polarization-sensitive ultraviolet (UV) photodetection is highly indispensable in military and civilian applications and has been demonstrated with various wide-band photodetectors. However, it still remains elusive to achieve the self-powered devices, which can be operated in the absence of external bias. Herein, for the first time, ferroelectricity-driven self-powered photodetection towards polarized UV light was successfully demonstrated in a 2D wide-band gap hybrid ferroelectric (BPA)2PbBr4 (BPA=3-bromopropylammonium) ( 1 ). We found that the prominent spontaneous polarization in 1 results in a bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) of 0.85 V, that independently drives photoexcited carriers separation and transport and thus supports self-powered ability. This self-powered detector shows strong polarization sensitivity to linearly polarized UV illumination with a polarization ratio up to 6.8, which is superior to that of previously reported UV-polarized photodetectors (ZnO, GaN, and GeS2). |