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3 May 2017 InAs/GaSb type-II superlattice infrared detectors: three decades of development
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Abstract
Recently, there has been considerable progress towards III-V antimonide-based low dimensional solids development and device design innovations. From a physics point of view, the type-II InAs/GaSb superlattice is an extremely attractive proposition. Their development results from two primary motivations: the perceived challenges of reproducibly fabricating high-operability HgCdTe FPAs at reasonable cost and theoretical predictions of lower Auger recombination for type-II superlattice (T2SL) detectors compared to HgCdTe. Lower Auger recombination should be translated into a fundamental advantage for T2SL over HgCdTe in terms of lower dark current and/or higher operating temperature, provided other parameters such as Shockley-Read-Hall lifetime are equal.

Based on these promising results it is obvious now that the InAs/GaSb superlattice technology is competing with HgCdTe third generation detector technology with the potential advantage of standard III-V technology to be more competitive in costs and as a consequence series production pricing. Comments to the statement whether the superlattice IR photodetectors can outperform the “bulk” narrow gap HgCdTe detectors is one of the most important questions for the future of IR photodetectors presented by Rogalski at the April 2006 SPIE meeting in Orlando, Florida, are more credible today and are presented in this paper. It concerns the trade-offs between two most competing IR material technologies: InAs/GaSb type-II superlattices and HgCdTe ternary alloy system.
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A. Rogalski, M. Kopytko, and P. Martyniuk "InAs/GaSb type-II superlattice infrared detectors: three decades of development", Proc. SPIE 10177, Infrared Technology and Applications XLIII, 1017715 (3 May 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272817
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KEYWORDS
Mercury cadmium telluride

Sensors

Long wavelength infrared

Stereolithography

Photodiodes

Superlattices

Absorption

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