EFFECT OF THE SHAPE OF THE FIRST BARRIER ON QUANTUM-WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR PERFORMANCE

Authors
LIU HC LI L BUCHANAN M WASILEWSKI ZR
Citation
Hc. Liu et al., EFFECT OF THE SHAPE OF THE FIRST BARRIER ON QUANTUM-WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR PERFORMANCE, Journal of applied physics, 82(2), 1997, pp. 889-892
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Journal of applied physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00218979
Volume
82
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
889 - 892
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-8979(1997)82:2<889:EOTSOT>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
A. systematic Study of a set of GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well infrared phot odetectors with various shapes of the first barrier (which acts as the device emitter or collector barrier depending on the applied bias pol arity) is reported on. Three types of barriers are investigated: a tri angular, a thick, and a high barrier. It is found that the effect of t he detailed emitter or collector barrier shapes on the detector perfor mance is negligible.