Recently, The team of Professor Wan Lingyu from SKL is entitled "Realization of Self-powered High-performance Photodetection via Electrostatic Field Enhancement and Dark Current Suppression" was published in the Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research.

Self-powered photodetectors (PDs) are particularly attractive in the construction of environmentally friendly and sustainable Internet of Things. Utilizing dual functions of PTFE of electrostatic field enhancement and dark current suppression, a high-performance self-powered ITO/PTFE/TiO₂/GaN UV PD is developed herein. The introduction of PTFE not only significantly reduces the dark current, but also facilitates the separation of photogenerated carriers by coupling the internal electrostatic field at the PTFE/TiO₂interface with the built-in electric field of the TiO₂/GaN heterojunction. With 0 V bias, the light-to-dark current (I_light/I_dark) ratio of the PD with PTFE is improved by 2297 times and the response time is faster by 1.69/2.96 times compared to the ITO/TiO₂/GaN PD. In addition, a microstructured M-ITO/PTFE/TiO₂/GaN PD with micrometer-sized cylindrical TiO₂arrays exhibits a highI_light/I_darkratio of 3.65 × 10⁵, a responsivity of 280.1 mA W⁻¹, a high detectivity of 1.97 × 10¹³Jones, and a response time of 4.3/3.0 ms under 360 nm illumination. Our strategy provides a promising way to develop high-performance self-powered PD.