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The Cu(In,Ga)Se 2 (CIGS) heterojunction, as a mature and high efficiency thin-film solar cell, is rarely studied as a photodetector, especially in flexible substrates. In this paper, the structure of an ITO/ZnO/CdS/CIGS/ Mo heterojunction is grown on the polyimide (PI) substrate to form a flexible CIGS heterojunction photodetector. The photodetector can work in a very wide band ranging from 350 to 1200 nm with responsivity up to 1.18 A W −1 (808 nm), detectivity up to 6.56 × 10 10 Jones (cmHz 1/2 W −1 ), and response time of 70 (/88) ms, respectively. Moreover, the piezophototronic effect is first used to investigate performance modulation of this device by effectively controlling the separation and transport of carriers at the interface of CdS/ZnO. Interestingly, by externally applying a 0.763% tensile strain, the photoresponsivity and detectivity of the photodetector exhibit a decrease from 1.18 to 0.88 A W −1 , and from 6.56 × 10 10 to 4.81 × 10 10 Jones, respectively, while under a -0.749% externally static compressive strain, the photoresponsivity could be enhanced by ≈75.4% with a maximum of 2.07 A W −1 , and the detectivity is improved by ≈66.1% with its peak value up to 10.9 × 10 10 Jones. Meanwhile, the response time can be modulated from 99(/116) to 41.3(/42.6) ms. This work suggests that the CIGS heterojunction has great potential in novel applications for piezophototronic sensors and also gives a hint to modulate the performance of other multilayer heterostructures via the piezotronic effect.

A two-week exposure experiment was designed to investigate the toxicity of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS) on the aquatic plant Hydrocharis dubis (Bl.) Backer, focusing on growth, photosynthetic pigments and the activities of antioxidant enzymes. No significant differences were observed in the growth parameters of H. dubis when H. dubis was exposed to lower LAS doses (10 mg l(-1)) resulted in significant decreases in all growth parameters of H. dubis. No significant effect on pigment contents was observed at up to 50 mg l(-1) LAS, beyond which pigment contents declined gradually. Malondialdehyde (MDA) content did not show obvious differences when H. dubis plants were exposed to

In this work, we present an alternative route to supply excessive selenium (Se) for the deposition of Sb2Se3 thin films by the co-evaporation of Se and Sb2Se3. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images showed that additional Se modified the growth process and surface morphology of Sb2Se3 thin films. X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns confirmed that this co-evaporation process enhanced the beneficiary preferred orientations, and capacitance–voltage (C–V) measurement showed that the carrier concentration of the Sb2Se3 absorber increased with the additional evaporation of Se. Accordingly, the efficiency of the devices employing co-evaporated Sb2Se3 absorber layers increased significantly from 2.1 to 3.47% with a open-circuit voltage (V OC) of 364 mV, a short-circuit current density (J SC) of 23.14 mA/cm2, and a fill factor (FF) of 41.26%.