Tunable electronic structure and optical properties of the photodetector based on the vertical TeSe2/GaSe van der Waals heterostructure
摘要
The electronic structure and optical properties of the photodetector based on the vertical TeSe2/GaSe van der Waals heterostructure (vdWH) have been investigated by way of the first-principles calculations. The obtained results indicate that the dynamically stable TeSe2/GaSe vdWH exhibits an indirect band gap of 0.63 eV and a type-I band alignment. A semiconductor-to-metal transition can be realized when the compressive strain exceeds − 4.4%, and the band alignment of the system should transform from type-I to type-II at the regime of 1.1% to 3.7% in-plane biaxial tensile strain. Compared to the TeSe2 and GaSe monolayers, the TeSe2/GaSe vdWH photodetector exhibits maximum absorption coefficient of ~ 25% in the visible range. The maximum photocurrent of the proposed TeSe2/GaSe vdWH photodetector reaches 0.97