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In the last decade, graphene has received extreme attention as an intriguing building block for electronic and photonic device applications. This paper provides an overview of recent progress in the study of vertical-junction diodes based on graphene and its hybrid systems by combination of graphene and other materials. The review is especially focused on tunnelling and Schottky diodes produced by chemical doping of graphene or combination of graphene with various semiconducting/ insulating materials such as hexagonal boron nitrides, Si-quantum-dots-embedded SiO2 multilayers, Si wafers, compound semiconductors, Si nanowires, and porous Si. The uniqueness of graphene enables the application of these convergence structures in high-efficient devices including photodetectors, solar cells, resonant tunnelling diodes, and molecular/DNA sensors.
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Choi, SH. Graphene-based vertical-junction diodes and applications. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 71, 311–318 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.71.311
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