• DocumentCode
    2104533
  • Title

    Suppressed Surface Leakage Current Using nBn Infrared Detector Based on Type II InAs/GaSb Strain Layer Superlattices

  • Author

    Kim, H.S. ; Bishop, G.D. ; Rodriguez, J.B. ; Sharma, Y.D. ; Plis, E. ; Dawson, L.R. ; Krishna, S.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    21-25 Oct. 2007
  • Firstpage
    648
  • Lastpage
    649
  • Abstract
    We present a SLS-based nBn infrared detector which suppresses the surface leakage current without using any passivation technique. The dark current density is reduced by an order of magnitude at 77 K compared with a conventional mesa etched device.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; dark conductivity; gallium compounds; indium compounds; infrared detectors; semiconductor superlattices; InAs-GaSb; dark current density; mesa etched device; nBn infrared detector; surface leakage current; type II InAs/GaSb strain layer superlattices; Capacitive sensors; Dark current; Infrared detectors; Laser sintering; Leakage current; Multilevel systems; Passivation; Photodetectors; Superlattices; Wet etching;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Lake Buena Vista, FL
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0925-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1092-8081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382573
  • Filename
    4382573