The invention discloses a Weyl
semimetal / TMDC
heterojunction photoelectric
detector and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of photoelectric devices. The photoelectric
detector comprises a substrate, a TMDC material layer, a Weyl semi-
metal material layer and a
thin film electrode, the TMDC material layer, the Weyl semi-
metal material layer and the
thin film electrode are sequentially arranged on the substrate, and the TMDC material layer and the Weyl semi-
metal material layer form a Van der Waals
heterojunction; the device can realize switching between a photovoltaic mode and a photoconductive mode through bias
voltage control; based on the characteristic, on the basis of the single photoelectric
detector, XNOR logic operation can be realized under bias regulation and control and single-
wavelength light beam excitation; accordingly, the invention further provides an image
encryption and decryption method, according to the method, a bias
voltage sequence is generated through image coding, a
laser sequence is formed in combination with a secret key matrix,
multiple encryption is conducted on image information through XNOR logical operation, and the concealment and safety of
information transmission can be remarkably improved; and a new path is provided for development of a future security communication technology.