III-V based infrared detectors are imposing new standards

Autor: Eric Costard, Shagufta Naureen, Linda Höglund, Dean Evans, Waldemar Diel, M. Delmas, David Rihtnesberg, Anton Smuk, Sergiy Smuk, Ruslan Ivanov
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Infrared Technology and Applications XLVI.
Popis: The III-V material system has proven to be a solid base for building infrared detector focal plane arrays (FPAs), enabling well-established designs such as bulk InSb-photodiodes, GaAs-based quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIP) and GaSb-based type-II superlattices (T2SL). The remarkable advancement in the sensitivity and stability of such FPAs seen in the past decades calls for revision of the merits and the acceptance criteria used for the performance evaluation of infrared imaging arrays. Specifically, the early skepticism toward QWIP has largely been focused on their low quantum efficiency, and consequently low specific detectivity of the FPA pixels, as compared to the counterparts with bulk design. It was later demonstrated that unrivalled spatial uniformity of QWIP arrays (typically with a residual non-uniformity
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