Van der Waals/MCT heterostructure enabled high-performance uncooled mid-infrared photodetectors via synergistic suppression of dark current and interfacial recombination
Xinlei Zhang, Tao Zhou, Yueying Cui, Ruizhi Li, Hao Wu, Yuwei Zhang, Rui Lin, Fang Yang, Kaiyang Liu, Jianfeng Wu, Dongyang Wan, Jialin Zhang, Junpeng Lu, Zhenhua Ni · 2026
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Xinlei Zhang and co-authors build a sensor for heat light that works without cooling in a 2026 paper. Such sensors serve night sight, remote scans, and fast links, but heat noise at room warmth has held them back. The team joins thin sheet materials to a known heat-light crystal to curb both noise and faults at the join.
A stack of two thin sheets plus the crystal forms a field that blocks dark flow. The middle sheet also cuts loss at the join and helps charge move through. The stack sensed far more keenly than stacks with one sheet, across both plain light and heat light.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xinlei Zhang, Tao Zhou, Yueying Cui, Ruizhi Li, Hao Wu, Yuwei Zhang, Rui Lin, Fang Yang, Kaiyang Liu, Jianfeng Wu, Dongyang Wan, Jialin Zhang, Junpeng Lu, Zhenhua Ni |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |