Effect of graphene on improved photosensitivity of MoS2-graphene composite based Schottky diode

In this work, MoS₂ and MoS₂-Graphene (MGC) composite have been synthesized by hydrothermal process followed by their structural, optical and electrical characterization. The current density-voltage measurements have been performed at room temperature by fabricating Al/MoS₂ and/or MGC/ITO configured sandwich structured metal-semiconductor (MS) thin film Schottky devices. Under light and dark conditions, various parameters of our synthesized material based devices like rectification ratio, series resistance, barrier height, etc. have been measured and compared between the two. All the measured electrical properties show improvement for the composite based diodes, noteworthy the photosensitivity which has been increased by almost 33 times, signifying its potential application in photosensitive devices.