Efficient light detection is central to modern science and technology. Current photodetectors
mainly use photodiodes based on crystalline inorganic elemental semiconductors, such as …

BACKGROUND The Information Age was founded on the semiconductor revolution, marked
by the growth of high-purity semiconductor single crystals. The resultant design and …

Light detection is the underlying principle of many optoelectronic systems. For decades,
semiconductors including silicon carbide, silicon, indium gallium arsenide and germanium …

Hybrid perovskites are promising semiconductors for optoelectronic applications. However,
they suffer from morphological disorder that limits their optoelectronic properties and …

Van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) based on 2D layered materials with selectable
materials properties pave the way to integration at the atomic scale, which may give rise to …

Infrared photodetectors (IRPDs) have become important devices in various applications
such as night vision, military missile tracking, medical imaging, industry defect imaging …

The primary motivation behind efforts to understand the properties of lead sulfide (PbS) is its
technological importance as the foundation of modern semiconductor optoelectronics. PbS …

Upconversion photodetectors convert photons from the infrared to the visible light spectrum
and are of use in applications such as infrared detection and imaging. High-performance …

PbS QDs/a‐IGZO based sensitized photo field‐effect transistors are promising candidate for
next‐generation near‐infrared photodetectors due to their ultra‐high sensitivity, gate …

The large diversity of applications in our daily lives that rely on photodetection technology
requires photodetectors with distinct properties. The choice of an adequate photodetecting …