• DocumentCode
    689055
  • Title

    Room temperature and high responsivity short wavelength II-VI quantum well infrared photodetector

  • Author

    Ravikumar, A.P. ; Guopeng Chen ; Kuaile Zhao ; Yue Tian ; Prucnal, Paul ; Tamargo, M.C. ; Gmachl, Claire F. ; Aidong Shen

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate a short wavelength ZnCdSe/ZnCdMgSe quantum well infrared photodetector (QWIP) with a room temperature responsivity of over 30 A/W. The dark-current limited detectivity at 80 K was measured to be 2×109 cm√Hz/W.
  • Keywords
    II-VI semiconductors; cadmium compounds; infrared detectors; magnesium compounds; optical variables measurement; photodetectors; semiconductor quantum wells; zinc compounds; ZnCdSe-ZnCdMgSe; dark-current limited detectivity; high responsivity short wavelength II-VI quantum well infrared photodetector; room temperature responsivity; temperature 293 K to 298 K; temperature 80 K; Current measurement; Dark current; Materials; Noise; Photodetectors; Quantum cascade lasers; Temperature measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833436