Abstract

The photoemission and electron collection properties of nanostructure photoemitter based on parallel aligned (Al)GaN nanowall arrays are investigated. In general, the photoelectric conversion efficiency of intrinsic GaN NWAs exhibit a significant improvement compared with planar photoemitter. Assisted by the built-in field induced by gradient decreasing Al component along axial direction of the nanowall, the proportion of emitting photoelectrons on each surface of a nanowall is redistributed and the collected photocurrent is obviously enhanced yet with a negative effect against quantum efficiency and emitted photocurrent. External field incorporation can tune the electron emitting path and improve the collection efficiency, but accompanied with a further decline in emitting photocurrent and quantum efficiency. For a certain configuration with nanowall height of 1 µm and spacing length of 1 µm, the optimum field intensity for emitting and collected photocurrent are respectively 0.3 and 0.5 V/µm. The alteration of photocurrent varied with field intensity dominated by the photoelectrons from the top surface and irradiated side face of the nanowall.

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