Construction and Characterization of Photodiodes prepared with Bi2S3 Nanowires.

• Bi 2 S 3 nanowire/ITO photodiodes have been constructed. • V-I characteristics of the diode show a photocurrent efficiency of 12 folds to that in dark. • 1D Bi 2 S 3 nanowires in the form of 2D thin films. • XRD peaks reveal orthorhombic structure with good crystallinity. ga1 This work discloses the characteristics of a Bi 2 S 3 nanowire / ITO photodiode and a manufacture method thereof; wherein, the high-crystalline Bi 2 S 3 nanostructures were prepared by an environmental friendly dip-coating method onto Indium-doped Tin Oxide (ITO) coated glass substrates using bismuth nitrate and thiourea as raw material with DMF as solvent. The XRD spectra showed that the Bi 2 S 3 nanowire exhibits orthorhombic structure, while the SEM images revealed the formation of uniform sized nanowires with diameter around 15.8 nm. The optical bandgap of the films had been estimated via Tauc plot and found to be in the range of 1.85–1.9 eV. In order to understand the I-V characterizations of the prepared diode showed prominent photo-response with a high photo-responsivity of 1.7 μA/cm2 with a fast response time were reported in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]