Title : 
Cryogenic DC characterization of InAs/Al80Ga20Sb self-switching diodes
         
        
            Author : 
Westlund, A. ; Moschetti, Giuseppe ; Nilsson, Per-Ake ; Grahn, Jan ; Desplanque, Ludovic ; Wallart, Xavier
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Microtechnol. & Nanosci. (MC2), Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
DC characterization of an InAs/Al80Ga20Sb self-switching diode for THz detection is presented at 300 K and 6 K. Compared to 300 K, an enhancement of the diode I-V nonlinearity and associated responsivity was observed under zerobias conditions at 6 K. The intrinsic responsivity was estimated to 490 V/W at 300 K and 4400 V/W at 6 K.
         
        
            Keywords : 
III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium compounds; indium compounds; submillimetre wave diodes; terahertz wave detectors; InAs-Al80Ga20Sb; THz detection; associated responsivity; cryogenic DC characterization; diode I-V nonlinearity; self-switching diodes; zerobias conditions; Cooling; Detectors; Electrical resistance measurement; HEMTs; MODFETs; Radio frequency; Resistance; InAs; SSD; THz; detector; diode; self-switching;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Indium Phosphide and Related Materials (IPRM), 2013 International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Kobe
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-6130-9
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
1092-8669
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICIPRM.2013.6562599