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Influences of structure parameters on the detectivity of quantum dot infrared detectors

HONG ZHANG1, YI ZHANG1, X. SANG1,* , C. YU1, G. ZHOU1, J. YUAN1

Affiliation

  1. Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (BUPT), Ministry of Education; Institute of Optical Communications and Optoelectronics, Beijing University of Posts and Telecom munic

Abstract

To optimize the performance of quantum dot infrared detectors(QDIDs), influences of structure parameters of on the detectivity are investigated. Effects of quantum dot (QD) density, doping levels, the number of QD layers and transverse distance between QD layers have been analyzed. Increasing densities of QD and donors can enhance the detectivity, but optimized detectivity needs a proper proportion between them. QDIPs exhibit optimized detectivity with the normalized QD density between 0.3~0.6, and the detectivity is sensitive to the transverse distances between QD layers when coupling is significant. The temperature sensitivity is discussed, the theoretical results agree well with the experimental results.

Keywords

Quantum dot, Infrared detector, Doping.

Citation

HONG ZHANG, YI ZHANG, X. SANG, C. YU, G. ZHOU, J. YUAN, Influences of structure parameters on the detectivity of quantum dot infrared detectors, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 3, 5, May 2009, pp.395-398 (2009).

Submitted at: May 20, 2009

Accepted at: May 25, 2009