Interdigitated electrode geometry variation and external quantum efficiency of GaN/AlGaN-based metal-semiconductor-metal UV photodetectors
- Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
Aluminum gallium-nitride (AlxGa1–xN)-based metal–semiconductor–metal (MSM) ultraviolet photodetectors photodetectors (PD’s) have been successfully designed and fabricated using conventional photolithography techniques and tested experimentally to study their spectral sensitivity across different Al content, x, with x varying from 0 to 0.3. (Al)GaN-based UV PD’s have wide and tunable direct band gaps. The ability to easily select the photodetected wavelength by simply varying the aluminum content of GaN thin film (AlxGa1–xN) is a significant advantage of these group III–V compounds. Typically, MSM PD’s grown on (Al)GaN thin films result in ultrafast photodetection because of their highly mobile carriers. These devices are limited by the carrier transit time due to the negligible capacitance presented by the interdigitated fingers. Various electrode geometries were fabricated to investigate the influence of metal contact shapes on the devices’ performance indices with emphasis on the response speed and bias-voltage–independent efficiency. Here, coupled with the independently measured Hall mobility and electric field, we computed the carrier transit time of the devices to be as short as 1.31 ps and the bias-voltage–independent external quantum efficiencies were as high as 70% at 60 V for n-doped and intrinsic devices when operated in the reverse bias regime. Here, (Alx)Ga1–xN photodetectors were designed to explore spectral sensitivity by altering x from 0 to 0.3.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- NA0003856
- OSTI ID:
- 1854573
- Journal Information:
- Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 12001; Conference: SPIE OPTP, San Francisco, CA (United States), 22 Jan - 28 Feb 2022; ISSN 0277-786X
- Publisher:
- SPIECopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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