Robert Peale, Isaiah Oladeji, Evan Smith, Vladimir Vasilyev, Sarmad Fawzi Hamza Alhasan, Hussain Abouelkhair, Dalibor Todorovski, Martin Kimani, Justin Cleary
Pyroelectric photoresponse of aqueous spray deposited thin films containing BaTiO3 nano-crystals is reported. X-ray diffraction data indicate the presence of hexagonal BaTiO3 nano-crystals with ~20 nm crystalline domains in a matrix of some as yet unidentified nano-crystalline material. When the film is annealed at 600 C, the X-ray pattern changes significantly and indicates a conversion to one of the non-hexagonal phases of BaTiO3 as well as a complete change in the matrix. With suitable amplifier, the measured photoresponse was 40V/W. Ferroelectric hysteresis on a film with significant presence of hexagonal BaTiO3 shows saturated polarization which is about 5-times smaller than for the bulk tetragonal phase. A potential application is a patternable infrared detector for photonic and plasmonic devices, such as chip-scale spectral sensors.
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