Studies of Extrinsic Silicon Infrared Detectors.

Abstract

Studies of the material parameters which limit the performance of silicon extrinsic infrared detectors are reported. These parameters include the carrier mobilities and the thermal, optical and Auger-impact generation-recombination-trapping rates at impurity and defect centers and impurity-defect complexes. The transient capacitance methods have been used to obtain these material characterization parameters as well as the generation annealing-diffusion kinetics of the centers. The transient capacitance methods are refined to give concentration profiles of recombination centers. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA046297

Entities

People

  • C. T. Sah

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arrhenius Equation
  • Band Theory Of Solids
  • Carrier Mobility
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Energy Bands
  • Energy Gaps
  • Infrared Detectors
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Scattering
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Semiconductors
  • Solid State Physics

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Semiconductor Device Technology