Anomalous light-to-electricity conversion of low dimensional semiconductor in p-n junction and interband transition quantum well infrared detector

Liu Jie; Wang Lu; Sun Ling; Wang Wen-Qi; Wu Hai-Yan; Jiang Yang; Ma Zi-Guang; Wang Wen-Xin; Jia Hai-Qiang; Chen Hong

doi:10.7498/aps.67.20180588

Abstract

Recently, high localized carrier extraction efficiency and enhanced absorption coefficient were observed in low-dimensional semiconductor within a p-n junction. In this work, we report the discovery and verification of the phenomenon, and the performance of the first photon detector based on the interband transition of strained InGaAs/GaAs quantum wells (QWs). By introducing the resonant excitation photoluminescence, the same phenomena are observed in several different material systems. More than 95% of the photoexcited carriers escape from InGaN/GaN QWs, and 87.3% in InGaAs/GaAs QWs and 88% in InAs/GaAs quantum dots are observed. The external quantum efficiency of the device is measured to be 31% by using an absorption layer with only 100 nm effective thickness in the case without an anti-reflection layer. Using such a high value of quantum efficiency, an absorption coefficient of 3.7104 cm-1 is calculated, which is obviously larger than previously reported values. The results here demonstrate the possibility of fabricating high-performance and low-cost infrared photon detectors.

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Authors and contacts

1.
Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
2.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Corresponding author: Chen Hong, hchen@iphy.ac.cn

Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11574362, 61210014, 11374340, 11474205) and the National Key RD Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFB0400302).

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