Uncooled InAsSb-based high-speed mid-wave infrared barrier detector
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1.R&D Center for Solid-State Lighting, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China;2.Kunming Institute of Physics, Kunming 650223, China;3.Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;4.The first military representative office in Kunming area of the Military Representative Bureau of Land Forces in Chongqing, Kunming 650000, China

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O43

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62174156)

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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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JIA Chun-Yang, DENG Gong-Rong, ZHAO Peng, ZHU Zhi-Zhen, ZHAO Jun, ZHANG Yi-Yun. Uncooled InAsSb-based high-speed mid-wave infrared barrier detector[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves,2024,43(2):166~172

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  • Received:July 06,2023
  • Revised:March 01,2024
  • Adopted:July 20,2023
  • Online: February 22,2024
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