MOVPE of GaSb/InGaAsSb multilayers and fabrication of dual band photodetectors

Yegao Xiao; Ishwara Bhat; Tamer F. Refaat; M. Nurul Abedin; Qinghui Shao

doi:10.1117/12.614208

19 August 2005 MOVPE of GaSb/InGaAsSb multilayers and fabrication of dual band photodetectors

Yegao Xiao, Ishwara Bhat, Tamer F. Refaat, M. Nurul Abedin, Qinghui Shao

Proceedings Volume 5881, Infrared and Photoelectronic Imagers and Detector Devices; 588101 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.614208
Event: Optics and Photonics 2005, 2005, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) of GaSb/InGaAsSb multilayer thin films and fabrication of bias-selectable dual band photodetectors are reported. For the dual band photodetectors the short wavelength detector, or the upper p-GaSb/n-GaSb junction photodiode, is placed optically ahead of the long wavelength one, or the lower photodiode. The latter is based on latticed-matched In_0.13Ga_0.87As_0.11Sb_0.89with bandgap near 0.6 eV. Specifically, high quality multilayer thin films are grown sequentially from top to bottom as p⁺-GaSb/p-GaSb/n-GaSb/n-InGaAsSb/p-InGaAsSb/p-GaSb on undoped p-type GaSb substrate, and as n-GaSb/p-GaSb/p-InGaAsSb/n-InGaAsSb/n-GaSb on Te-doped n-type GaSb substrate respectively. The multilayer thin films are characterized by optical microscope, atomic force microscope (AFM), electron microprobe analyses etc. The photodiode mesa steps are patterned by photolithography with wet chemical etching and the front metallization is carried out by e-beam evaporation with Pd/Ge/Au/Ti/Au to give ohmic contact on both n- and p-type Sb based layer surfaces. Dark I-V measurements show typical diode behavior for both the upper and lower photodiodes. The photoresponsivity measurements indicate that both the upper and lower photodiodes can sense the infrared illumination corresponding to their cutoff wavelengths respectively, comparable with the simulation results. More work is underway to bring the long wavelength band to the medium infrared wavelength region near 4 μm.

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Yegao Xiao, Ishwara Bhat, Tamer F. Refaat, M. Nurul Abedin, and Qinghui Shao "MOVPE of GaSb/InGaAsSb multilayers and fabrication of dual band photodetectors", Proc. SPIE 5881, Infrared and Photoelectronic Imagers and Detector Devices, 588101 (19 August 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.614208

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