Paper-based amorphous Ga<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> solar-blind photodetector with improved flexibility and stability

Hanchi Xia; Tao Zhang; Yuehui Wang; Yaping Qi; Fan Zhang; Zhenping Wu; Yang Zhang

doi:10.3788/COL202321.101601

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 10, 101601(2023)

Paper-based amorphous Ga₂O₃ solar-blind photodetector with improved flexibility and stability Editors' Pick

Hanchi Xia¹, Tao Zhang¹, Yuehui Wang¹, Yaping Qi^2,3, Fan Zhang^1、*, Zhenping Wu^1、**, and Yang Zhang^4、***

¹State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications & School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

²Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan

³Department of Engineering Science, Faculty of Innovation Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau 999078, China

⁴Institute of Modern Optics & Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

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Category: Optical Materials

Received: Apr. 13, 2023

Accepted: May. 18, 2023

Published Online: Oct. 11, 2023

The Author Email: Fan Zhang (fzhang@bupt.edu.cn), Zhenping Wu (zhenpingwu@bupt.edu.cn), Yang Zhang (yangzhang@nankai.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202321.101601

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