Heterojunction internal photoemission Si0.7Ge0.3/Si infrared detector

True Lon Lin; Jin Suk Park; Sarath D. Gunapala; Eric W. Jones; Hector M. Del Castillo

doi:10.1117/12.163403

1 March 1994 Heterojunction internal photoemission Si_0.7Ge_0.3/Si infrared detector

True Lon Lin, Jin Suk Park, Sarath D. Gunapala, Eric W. Jones, Hector M. Del Castillo

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 33, Issue 3, (March 1994). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.163403

Abstract

Single-layer and multilayer Si_0.7Ge_0.3/Si heterojunction internal photoemission (HIP) detectors with cutoff wavelengths out to ~23 μm have been demonstrated. Near-ideal thermionic emission dark current characteristics and photoresponse at wavelengths up to 20 μm were measured. The cutoff wavelength λ_c and emission coefficient C₁ of the HIP detectors were determined by the modified Fowler plot at the wavelength regime where the corresponding photon energies were smaller than the Fermi energy (~0.15 eV) of the degenerate Si_0.7Ge_0.3 layers. Similar optical and thermal potential barriers were obtained. The use of multiple Si_0.7Ge_0.3/Si layers in the stacked HIP detector structure resulted in a significantly increased emission coefficient C₁ compared to the single-layer HIP detectors due to an enhanced internal photoemission efficiency without the loss of IR absorption.

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True Lon Lin, Jin Suk Park, Sarath D. Gunapala, Eric W. Jones, and Hector M. Del Castillo "Heterojunction internal photoemission Si_0.7Ge_0.3/Si infrared detector," Optical Engineering 33(3), (1 March 1994). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.163403

Published: 1 March 1994

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