Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, Volume. 43, Issue 2, 166(2024)

Uncooled InAsSb-based high-speed mid-wave infrared barrier detector

Chun-Yang JIA1,3, Gong-Rong DENG2, Peng ZHAO2, Zhi-Zhen ZHU4, Jun ZHAO2、**, and Yi-Yun ZHANG1,3、*
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  • 1R&D Center for Solid-State Lighting,Institute of Semiconductors,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100083,China
  • 2Kunming Institute of Physics,Kunming 650223,China
  • 3Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China
  • 4The first military representative office in Kunming area of the Military Representative Bureau of Land Forces in Chongqing,Kunming 650000,China
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    The demand for high-speed response mid-wave infrared (MWIR) photodetectors (PDs) is gradually increasing in emerging fields such as free-space optical communication and frequency comb spectroscopy. The XBnn barrier infrared photodetectors greatly suppress shot noise originated from the device dark current. In this work, InAsSb/AlAsSb/AlSb-based nBn and pBn barrier MWIR PDs were grown on GaSb substrates using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The GSG PDs were fabricated to realize the radio frequency (RF) response testing. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) results indicate that both epitaxial structures exhibit good crystal quality. The 90 μm diameter pBn PDs exhibit a lower dark current density of 0.145 A/cm2 compared to the nBn PDs operating at room temperature (RT) and a reverse bias of 400 mV, which indicates the uncooled barrier PDs perform with low noise. Capacitance tests reveal that the pBn PDs, operating at zero bias, show a fully depleted barrier layer and partially depleted absorption region, while the nBn absorption region also exhibits partial depletion. RF response characterization demonstrates that the 90 μm diameter pBn PDs achieve 3 dB bandwidth of 2.62 GHz at room temperature and under a 3 V reverse bias, which represents a 29.7% improvement over the corresponding nBn PDs, only achieving 3 dB bandwidth of 2.02 GHz. This signifies a preliminary achievement of uncooled barrier MWIR PDs capable of fast detection.

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    Chun-Yang JIA, Gong-Rong DENG, Peng ZHAO, Zhi-Zhen ZHU, Jun ZHAO, Yi-Yun ZHANG. Uncooled InAsSb-based high-speed mid-wave infrared barrier detector[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2024, 43(2): 166

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jul. 5, 2023

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 29, 2024

    The Author Email: Jun ZHAO (junzhao80@163.com), Yi-Yun ZHANG (yyzhang@semi.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2024.02.004

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