Stress-Engineered Quantum Dots for Multispectral Infra-Red Detector Arrays

Abstract

During the above-noted period of this Final Technical Report, the following salient milestones were reached: (1) Introduced and demonstrated the concept of injecting electrons into the quantum dot (OD) active infra-red absorbing region from bracketing doped contact layers (to suppress unwanted dark current) leaving the QD region undoped; (2) Introduced and demonstrated the benefits of the concepts of (a) strain-relieving OD capping layers, (b) current blocking layers, and (c) lateral potential confinement layer for tailoring the OD electronic response to the desired IR response; (3) Demonstrated high performance ODIP devices in the mid and longwavelength IR regions; (4) Demonstrated voltage-tunable mid and long IR dual wavelength ODIPs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 2006
Accession Number
ADA463604

Entities

People

  • A. Konkar
  • A. Madhukar
  • J. C. Campbell
  • W. I. Wang
  • Y. C. Chang

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Contracts
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Dipole Moments
  • Electric Fields
  • Electronics
  • Electrons
  • Infrared Detection
  • Infrared Detectors
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Multispectral
  • Optical Properties
  • Quantum Dots
  • Quantum Wells
  • Semiconductors
  • Spectroscopy

Readers

  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing