Optoelectronic transport mechanism from subband infrared absorption and tunneling regeneration |
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| Institution: | 1. Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA;2. Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA;1. Department of Electro-Optics Engineering, National Formosa University, Yunlin 632, Taiwan;2. Institute of Electro-Optical Science and Technology, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 116, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | The main problems of conventional multi-quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs) were discussed. In order to overcome the limitations of the conventional QWIPs, such as small photocurrent, high dark current and low response speed, novel QWIPs in which photocurrent increases with the number of well were proposed. The novel structure with several wells were calculated and analyzed in detail, and successfully fabricated. The dark current lower than conventional QWIPs by about one order of magnitude was obtained, well in agreement with theoretical value. I–V characteristics of the novel QWIPs with six wells has been presented, and six related negative differential resistance regions were observed at positive bias. The absorption photocurrents of the novel QWIPs at 77 K were found to increase with well numbers, confirming the mechanism of the new structure. Furthermore, the transportation of the optoelectronic and some other problems of the QWIPs were discussed. |
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