Tri-layered Si/Co3O4/ZnO heterojunction for high-performance visible photodetection (Author Accepted Manuscript)

This is the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) of an article published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Citation: Domingues et al., J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12, 8727, DOI: 10.1039/D4TC01624F. The manuscript has undergone peer review but has not been copy-edited or typeset by the publisher. The final published version (Version of Record) is available at: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4TC01624F This deposition is in accordance with NCN Open Access policy. This work was supported by: (i) the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in the framework of the Strategic Funding Contracts UIDB/04650/2020; (ii) the exploratory research project 2022.01740.PDTC (https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.01740.PTDC) and (iii) the project M-ERA-NET3/0003/2021 – NanOx4EStor grant agreement no 958174 (https://doi.org/10.54499/M-ERA-NET3/0003/2021). J. P. B. S. also thanks FCT for the contract under the Institutional Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus – 2021 Call (CEECINST/00018/2021). The authors would like also to thank engineer José Santos for technical support at the Thin Film Laboratory and Eunika Zielony, PhD, for technical support with Raman measurements. K. G. acknowledges support from the National Science Centre in Poland grant no. 2023/07/X/ST7/00073. M. C. I. and C. G. acknowledge the financial support by a grant of the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization, CNCS/CCCDI – UEFISCDI, project number COFUND-M-ERANET-3-NanOx4Estor, within PNCDI III. JLM-D. and R. L. Z. H. thank the EPSRC for support (grant no. EP/P007767/1 [CAM-IES] and no. EP/Y032942/1). J. L. M-D. acknowledges support from the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies scheme (no.: CIET1819_24) and the ERC advanced grant, EU-H2020-ERC-ADG no. 882929, EROS, and the EPSRC grant no. EP/Y032942/1.