Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 50, Issue 1, 20211007(2021)

Fundamental researches on the quantum well interband transition detector(Invited)

Chen Yue1,2, Haojun Yang1,2, Haiyan Wu1,2, Yangfeng Li1,2, Ling Sun1,2, Zhen Deng1, Chunhua Du1, Yang Jiang1, Ziguang Ma1, Wenxin Wang1, Haiqiang Jia1, and Hong Chen1
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  • 1Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    Recently, the anomalous carrier transport in the quantum wells with the PN junction structures has been found experimentally, and the corresponding physical mechanism and the carrier transport model have been proposed. It is observed that the open circuit voltage or short-circuit current can be measured in the resonant excitation mode. Comparing the photoluminescence (PL) spectra of the two kinds of external circuits, it is found that the PL intensity decreased significantly under the short circuit condition. This suggests that the photogenerated carriers under the short circuit condition are not confined in the quantum well, but escaping from the junction region. However, this phenomenon of photocarriers escaping from the quantum wells is not found in the NN-type quantum well structure. Therefore, the effect of thermal excitation or tunneling is excluded to drive the carrier escaping from the quantum well. Based on this, the corresponding physical mechanism and carrier transport model are proposed. It is concluded that photogenerated carriers can escape from the quantum well directly under the built-in electric field of PN junction, and the radiative recombination luminescence occurs after the carrier escape process.

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    Chen Yue, Haojun Yang, Haiyan Wu, Yangfeng Li, Ling Sun, Zhen Deng, Chunhua Du, Yang Jiang, Ziguang Ma, Wenxin Wang, Haiqiang Jia, Hong Chen. Fundamental researches on the quantum well interband transition detector(Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(1): 20211007

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    Category: Frontier technology of infrared photodetector $ Materials and devices for multi-mode infrared detection

    Received: Nov. 20, 2020

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 24, 2021

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    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20211007

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