Comparison of Single Well and Double and Triple Coupled Well Quantum-Well Infrared Photodetector Designs

Abstract

A comparison is presented between three GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well infrared photodetector (QWIP) designs: the conventional single well and two coupled well designs, one containing two wells per period and the other three. Three QWIP detector test arrays have the same quantum well width, barrier thickness, doping density in each well, and a peak wavelength of 8.7 m. The detector array test structures used edge coupling to remove the grating or optical coupling structure effects from the detector response characteristics. Extensive temperature, bias and spectral dependent blackbody response and specific detectivity data are presented. The data show that coupled well designs offer both higher quantum efficiency and lower dark current than the more conventional single well QWIP.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA399973

Entities

People

  • A. C. Goldberg
  • D. W. Beekman
  • J. W. Little
  • Richard P. Leavitt
  • S. W. Kennerly

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Arrays
  • Conduction Bands
  • Couplings
  • Detectors
  • Efficiency
  • Electric Fields
  • Energy Bands
  • Energy Levels
  • Focal Plane Arrays
  • Focal Planes
  • Geometry
  • Ground State
  • Infrared Detectors
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Quantum Wells
  • Thickness

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Microwave Engineering.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing