Enhanced low-noise gain from InAs avalanche photodiodes with reduced dark current and background doping
Abstract
We reduced the room temperature dark current in an InAs avalanche photodiode by increasing the p-type contact doping, resulting in an increased energetic barrier to minority electron injection into the p-region, which is a significant source of dark current at room temperature. In addition, by improving the molecular beam epitaxy growth conditions, we reduced the background doping concentration and realized depletion widths as wide as 5 μm at reverse biases as low as 1.5 V. These improvements culminated in low-noise InAs avalanche photodiodes exhibiting a room temperature multiplication gain of ∼80, at a record low reverse bias of 12 V.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Oct 08, 2012
- Source ID
- 10.1063/1.4757424
Entities
People
- H. P. Nair
- J. C. Campbell
- S. J. Maddox
- Seth R. Bank
- Weiqin Sun
- Ziqi Lu
Organizations
- Army Research Office
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Virginia