Mid-wavelength infrared avalanche photodetector with AlAsSb/GaSb superlattice
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Jiakai Li; Arash Dehzangi; Gail Brown; Manijeh Razeghi
- Source
- Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2021)
- Subject
- Medicine
Science
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
Abstract In this work, a mid-wavelength infrared separate absorption and multiplication avalanche photodiode (SAM-APD) with 100% cut-off wavelength of ~ 5.0 µm at 200 K grown by molecular beam epitaxy was demonstrated. The InAsSb-based SAM-APD device was designed to have electron dominated avalanche mechanism via the band structure engineered multi-quantum well structure based on AlAsSb/GaSb H-structure superlattice and InAsSb material in the multiplication region. The device exhibits a maximum multiplication gain of 29 at 200 K under -14.7 bias voltage. The maximum multiplication gain value for the MWIR SAM-APD increases from 29 at 200 K to 121 at 150 K. The electron and hole impact ionization coefficients were derived and the large difference between their value was observed. The carrier ionization ratio for the MWIR SAM-APD device was calculated to be ~ 0.097 at 200 K.