Temperature dependence of diffusion length and mobility in mid-wavelength InAs/InAsSb superlattice infrared detectors

被引:18
作者
Soibel, Alexander [1 ]
Ting, David Z. [1 ]
Fisher, Anita M. [1 ]
Khoshakhlagh, Arezou [1 ]
Pepper, Brian [1 ]
Gunapala, Sarath D. [1 ]
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[1] CALTECH, NASA, Jet Prop Lab, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91030 USA
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Indium arsenide;
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10.1063/5.0027230
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要
In the past decade, infrared detectors with InAs/InAsSb (Gallium-free) type-II strained layer superlattice absorbers became a technology of interest for many imaging applications. In this work, we study the dependence of minority carrier (hole) transport, absorption coefficient, and quantum efficiency (QE) of a 5.6 mu m cutoff wavelength mid-wavelength infrared InAs/InAsSb detector on temperatures and applied bias. We found that the minority carrier lifetime is very long (tau approximate to 5.5 mu s) and is temperature independent in the temperature range T=50-150K. The back-side illuminated QE without anti-reflection coating increases from similar to 30% at T=50K to similar to 60% at T=180K. The minority carrier (hole) diffusion length, L-dh, was found from QE and absorption coefficient. The hole diffusion length at T=50K is L-dh=2.4 mu m and increases monotonically to L-dh=7.2 mu m at T=180K. The hole mobility, calculated from diffusion length and minority carrier lifetime, is mu (h)=4.5cm(2)/Vs at T=50K and increases with temperature to reach mu (h)=7.2cm(2)/Vs at T=150K. In addition, we find that at lower temperatures where the diffusion length is shorter, the stronger QE dependence on applied bias is due to minority carrier collection from the depletion region, whose width increases with applied bias.
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