Two-stack three-color quantum well infrared photodetector for mid- and long-wavelength infrared detection

Sheng S. Li; Seung-Hwan Kim; Jun-Hee Moon; Jung Hee Lee; Meimei Z. Tidrow; Walter R. Dyer

doi:10.1117/12.478848

5 August 2002 Two-stack three-color quantum well infrared photodetector for mid- and long-wavelength infrared detection

Sheng S. Li, Seung-Hwan Kim, Jun-Hee Moon, Jung Hee Lee, Meimei Z. Tidrow, Walter R. Dyer

Proceedings Volume 4721, Infrared Detectors and Focal Plane Arrays VII; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.478848
Event: AeroSense 2002, 2002, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

In this paper we report a high performance 2-stack, 3-color quantum well infrared photodetector (QWIP) composed of InGaAs/AlGaAs QWIP and an InGaAs/AlGaAs/InGaAs triple- coupled (TC-) QWIP grown on the GaAs substrate for the mid- and long-wavelength (MW/LW) infrared (IR) detection. The basic device structure consists of a MWIR QWIP stack with 3 periods of 43 Angstroms In_0.3Ga_0.7As quantum well and an undoped 300 Angstroms Al_0.3Ga_0.7As barrier and a LWIR TC-QWIP stack with 5 periods of 65 Angstroms In_0.18Ga_0.82As quantum well (QW) and two undoped 60 Angstroms In_0.05Ga_0.95As Qws separated by 20 Angstroms Al_0.08Ga_0.92As barriers. The TC-QWIP stack has two response peaks, which are voltage-tunable from 9.2micrometers to 10 micrometers and 12micrometers to 12.2micrometers by the applied bias, respectively. For the LWIR TC-QWIP, a maximum responsivity of 1.96A/W at 12micrometers was obtained at T=40K, and a maximum detectivity of (Formula available in paper) was obtained at V_b=-1.7V, λ_p=12micrometers , and T=20K. As for the MWIR QWIP stack excellent responsivity at the peak wavelength of λ_p=5.1micrometers was obtained up to 120 K.

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Sheng S. Li, Seung-Hwan Kim, Jun-Hee Moon, Jung Hee Lee, Meimei Z. Tidrow, and Walter R. Dyer "Two-stack three-color quantum well infrared photodetector for mid- and long-wavelength infrared detection", Proc. SPIE 4721, Infrared Detectors and Focal Plane Arrays VII, (5 August 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.478848

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