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This paper reports performance simulation of a unipolar tunable band gap InAs-InAsSb type-II superlattice (T2SL) infrared photodetector. The generation-recombination and surface leakage currents limit the performance of T2SL photodiodes. Unipolar nBn device design incorporating a suitable barrier layer in the diode structure is taken to suppress the Auger recombination and tunneling currents. At low reverse bias, the generation-recombination current is negligible in the absence of a depletion region, but the dark current is dominated by the diffusion current at higher operation temperatures. The composition, band alignment, barrier width, doping level and thickness of the absorber region are optimized here to achieve low dark current and high quantum efficiency at elevated operating temperatures. Thin unipolar T2SL absorbers are placed in a resonant cavity to enhance photon-material interaction, thus allowing complete absorption in a thinner detector element. It leads to the reduction in the detector volume for lower dark current without affecting the quantum efficiency. It shows an improvement in the quantum efficiency and reduction in the dark current. Dark current density ∼ 10−5 A/cm2 is achievable with low absorber thickness of 2 μm and effective lifetime of 250 ns in the InAs/InAs0.6Sb0.4/B-AlAs1−xSbx long wave length T2SL detector at 110 K.
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Singh, A., Pal, R. Performance Simulation of Unipolar InAs/InAs1−xSbx Type-II Superlattice Photodetector. J. Electron. Mater. 47, 4653–4662 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-018-6342-2
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