Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, Volume. 42, Issue 1, 8(2023)
Studies on the surface treatment of InAs/GaSb type-II super-lattice long-wave infrared detectors
In this work, the surface treatment of InAs/GaSb type-II super-lattice long-wavelength infrared detectors is studied. An optimizing process of N2O plasma treatment and rapid thermal annealing was developed, which can improve the performance of long-wavelength detector with λ50% ?cut-off=12.3μm from 5.88×10-1A/cm2 to 4.09×10-2A/cm2 at liquid nitrogen temperature, -0.05V bias. Through variable area device array characterization, the sidewall leakage current was extracted. Under zero bias, the surface resistivity improved from 17.9Ωcm to 297.6 Ωcm. However, the sidewall leakage couldn’t be ignored under large inverse bias after optimizing process, where surface charge might induce the surface tunneling current. It is verified by gate-control structure that there are two main leakage mechanisms in long-wave device: pure sidewall parallel resistance and surface tunneling. At last, the surface charge was calculated to be 3.72×1011cm-2 by IV curve fitting after optimizing process.
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Yu-Rong CUI, Yi ZHOU, Min HUANG, Fang-Fang WANG, Zhi-Cheng XU, Jia-Jia XU, Jian-Xin CHEN, Li HE. Studies on the surface treatment of InAs/GaSb type-II super-lattice long-wave infrared detectors[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2023, 42(1): 8
Category: Research Articles
Received: Feb. 24, 2021
Accepted: --
Published Online: Feb. 23, 2023
The Author Email: ZHOU Yi (zhouyi@mail.sitp.ac.cn), CHEN Jian-Xin (jianxinchen@mail.sitp.ac.cn)