Thursday, December 23, 2010

Photoresponse in nanowires!!

Well, we finally got a photoresponse out of our nanowires.
The I-V curve is below -- more current when more light is shining on them! Also, strangely non-linear behaviour -- perhaps a schottky barrier at one end between the Pt-Si.

short wire (1.3 μm) -- massive photoresponse at saturation. The sample was gently shaded with Al foil, still a lot of light leaking in for the dark curve, and just room light for the light curve (more current)

long wire (6.1 μm) -- very small photoresponse, quite good diode action


Unfortunately the contacts melted during annealing, but we might yet be able to fix that.

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