Normal Incident Long Wave Infrared Quantum Dash Quantum Cascade Photodetector

Feng-Jiao Wang; Fei Ren; Shu-Man Liu; Ning Zhuo; Shen-Qiang Zhai; Jun-Qi Liu; Feng-Qi Liu; Zhan-Guo Wang

doi:10.1186/s11671-016-1611-6

Normal Incident Long Wave Infrared Quantum Dash Quantum Cascade Photodetector

Nanoscale Res Lett. 2016 Dec;11(1):392. doi: 10.1186/s11671-016-1611-6. Epub 2016 Sep 9.

Authors

Feng-Jiao Wang¹, Fei Ren¹, Shu-Man Liu², Ning Zhuo¹, Shen-Qiang Zhai¹, Jun-Qi Liu¹, Feng-Qi Liu³, Zhan-Guo Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials Science, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and, Beijing Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Semiconductor Materials and Devices, P.O. Box 912, Beijing, 100083, People's Republic of China.
² Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials Science, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and, Beijing Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Semiconductor Materials and Devices, P.O. Box 912, Beijing, 100083, People's Republic of China. [email protected].
³ Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials Science, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and, Beijing Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Semiconductor Materials and Devices, P.O. Box 912, Beijing, 100083, People's Republic of China. [email protected].

Abstract

We demonstrate a quantum dash quantum cascade photodetector (QDash-QCD) by incorporating self-assembled InAs quantum dashes into the active region of a long wave infrared QCD. Sensitive photoresponse to normal incident light at 10 μm was observed, which is attributed to the intersubband (ISB) transitions in the quantum well/quantum dash (QW/QDash) hybrid absorption region and the following transfer of excited electrons on the extraction stair-like quantum levels separated by LO-phonon energy. The high density InAs quantum dashes were formed in the Stranski-Krastanow mode and stair-like levels were formed by a lattice matched InGaAs/InAlAs superlattice. A stable responsivity from 5 mA/W at 77 K to 3 mA/W at as high as 190 K was observed, which makes the QDash-QCD promising in high temperature operation.

Keywords: Infrared detector; Quantum cascade; Quantum dash.