CN104037256A - Silicon-based tellurium cadmium mercury long-wave photodiode chip - Google Patents

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CN104037256A
CN104037256A CN201410258854.XA CN201410258854A CN104037256A CN 104037256 A CN104037256 A CN 104037256A CN 201410258854 A CN201410258854 A CN 201410258854A CN 104037256 A CN104037256 A CN 104037256A
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叶振华
张鹏
陈奕宇
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胡晓宁
丁瑞军
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Abstract

The invention discloses a silicon-based tellurium cadmium mercury long-wave photodiode chip which structurally comprises a Si substrate, a CdTe buffer layer firmly bonded to the Si substrate and a micro table face heterojunction photodiode arranged on the CdTe buffer layer sequentially arranged from bottom to top. The photodiode chip has the advantage that the photodiode chip adopts an n-on-P+ or p-on-N+ structure compared with the silicon-based tellurium cadmium mercury long-wave photodiode chip of a traditional structure, and can restrain interface recombination and improve device performance. Narrow band response spectrum is acquired under the condition that an optical filter is not used, the detection rate of long-wave bands is increased, and the large-area array infrared detector pixel series connection resistor consistency is ensured.

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Silicon-based tellurium-cadmium mercury long wave photodiode chip
Technical field
The present invention relates to infrared photoelectric detector, specifically refer to a kind of employing n-on-P +or p-on-N +the silicon-based tellurium-cadmium mercury long wave photodiode chip of structure.
Background technology
Advanced mercury-cadmium-tellurium focal plane photodetector technology is extended to three-dimensional imaging by the two dimension target imaging of single wave band or obtains the spectral characteristic of target simultaneously, and the continuous future development towards ultrahigh resolution and high recognition capability.On the material of detector, require the size of material, performance is higher, structure is more complicated, thereby realize the function that multiple target information is produced to multiple response.For tellurium cadmium mercury epitaxial technology, the size of material is mainly limited by backing material.In traditional technology, tellurium zinc cadmium and GaAs are the backing materials of two kinds of comparative maturities, the advantage of these substrates is that its lattice can match or comparison match with mercury cadmium telluride, it is also comparatively easy that extension goes out high-quality tellurium cadmium mercury epitaxial material, but the hot matching properties of they and silicon reading circuit is difficult to meet the requirement of extensive infrared focal plane device.Theoretically, only have silicon substrate material could finally overcome this technical restriction, meanwhile, the increase of scantling, the reduction of cost also be unable to do without uses silicon-based substrate.Yet lattice mismatch between silicon and mercury cadmium telluride (19% left and right) is but the biggest obstacle of development silicon-based tellurium-cadmium mercury epitaxy technology.Early stage exploration work is what under the drive of silica-based GaAs epitaxy technology, to carry out, further development is to utilize the atom modified technology of silicon substrate surface As to realize the direct extension of silica-based ZnTe, is nowadays the tellurium cadmium mercury epitaxial technology using silica-based CdTe Mbe Grown as substrate.Although obtained significant progress, but before solving the problem that lattice mismatch is large completely, be present in the compound preparation that is still restricting high performance silicon-based tellurium-cadmium mercury LONG WAVE INFRARED focus planardetector in interface that the various defects between mercury cadmium telluride active region and CdTe resilient coating cause.That silicon-based tellurium-cadmium mercury LONG WAVE INFRARED focus planardetector mainly adopts is the n of Implantation +the p that-on-p structure or nonionic inject +-on-n structure.The photonic absorption district of the device of these two kinds of structures is epitaxial growth on silica-based CdTe Mbe Grown all, thereby the overall performance of detector has been subject to being present in the compound restriction in interface between mercury cadmium telluride active region and CdTe resilient coating.In addition, in the application of LONG WAVE INFRARED focus planardetector, be also by increasing the mode of filter, to obtain narrowband response spectrum on the device of these two kinds of structures, improve the detectivity of long-wave band.
Summary of the invention
The object of this invention is to provide silicon-based tellurium-cadmium mercury longwave optical electric diode novel chip, it adopts n-on-P +or p-on-N +structure, can suppress interface compound, improve device performance and by device acquisition narrowband response itself.
The structure of silicon-based tellurium-cadmium mercury long wave photodiode chip of the present invention is followed successively by: Si substrate 1, CdTe resilient coating 2 with Si substrate strong bonded, micro-table top heterojunction photodiode 3 on CdTe resilient coating and climbing public electrode 4, on micro-table top heterojunction photodiode 3, there is the first indium pellet 5, on climbing public electrode, there is the second indium pellet 6, it is characterized in that: described micro-table top heterojunction photodiode 3 is n-on-P +or p-on-N +structure, wherein:
At n-on-P +in structure, N-shaped HgCdTe layer is In doping HgCdTe layer, and doping content is 1.0-15.0 * 10 15cm -3, thickness is 8.0-10.0 μ m; P +type HgCdTe layer is Hg room doping HgCdTe layer, and doping content is 1.0-8.0 * 10 17cm -3, thickness is 4.0-5.0 μ m;
At p-on-N +in structure, p-type HgCdTe layer is Hg room doping HgCdTe layer, and doping content is 1.0-15.0 * 10 15cm -3, thickness is 8.0-10.0 μ m; N +type HgCdTe layer is In doping HgCdTe layer, and doping content is 1.0-8.0 * 10 17cm -3, thickness is 4.0-5.0 μ m.
The device course of work of the present invention is: when infrared radiation is when substrate back incides detector chip, through after silica-based CdTe substrate, the infrared radiation of short-and-medium wave band is at P +or N +type HgCdTe layer is absorbed, and the photo-generated carrier of generation is not substantially by n-P +or p-N +knot absorbs; The infrared radiation of long-wave band moves on, and arrives n or p-type HgCdTe layer and is absorbed, and the photo-generated carrier of generation is by n-P +or p-N +separately, the long-wave band photosignal of generation is by reading interconnection In ball 5 and 6 outputs for the internal electric field of knot, thus the focus plane device chip that can survey long wave of formation.
Advantage of the present invention:
1. than traditional n +-on-p or p +the silicon-based tellurium-cadmium mercury long wave photodiode chip of-on-n structure, n-on-P of the present invention +or p-on-N +it is compound that the silicon-based tellurium-cadmium mercury long wave photodiode chip of structure can suppress interface, improves device performance.
2.n-on-P +or p-on-N +the silicon-based tellurium-cadmium mercury LONG WAVE INFRARED focus planardetector of structure can obtain narrowband response spectrum in the situation that not using filter, improves the detectivity of long-wave band.
3. the P of detection chip of the present invention +or N +type HgCdTe layer has less body impedance, can guarantee the consistency of large area array infrared detector picture dot series resistance.
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Fig. 1 is n-on-P of the present invention +or p-on-N +the generalized section of the silicon-based tellurium-cadmium mercury long wave photodiode chip of structure.
Fig. 2 is traditional n-on-p +quantum efficiency curve when the long wave photodiode chip of structure does not add anti-reflection film.
Fig. 3 is n-on-P of the present invention +quantum efficiency curve when the long wave photodiode chip of structure does not add anti-reflection film.
Fig. 4 is n-on-P of the present invention +the response spectrum curve of the long wave photodiode chip of structure.
Embodiment
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, take the n-on-P of picture dot centre-to-centre spacing as 15 μ m +the heterogeneous example of becoming of type HgCdTe, elaborates to the specific embodiment of the present invention:
As shown in Figure 1, first on Si substrate 1, increase successively CdTe resilient coating 2; Hg room doping content is 1.0 * 10 17, thickness is the P that 5 μ m, component are 0.245 +type HgCdTe layer; And In doping content is 1.0 * 10 15, thickness is the N-shaped HgCdTe layer that 10 μ m, component are 0.21; Then the In post that increases passivation layer, metal ohmic contact electrode, metal climbing electrode and interconnect with reading circuit on the exposed surface of micro-table top.
Finally the photoelectric characteristic of above-described embodiment is carried out to numerical simulation.Fig. 2 is traditional n-on-p +quantum efficiency curve when the long wave photodiode chip of structure does not add anti-reflection film.Fig. 3 is n-on-P of the present invention +quantum efficiency curve when the long wave photodiode chip of structure does not add anti-reflection film.As shown in Figure 2,3, in the situation that not increasing anti-reflection film, the quantum efficiency of LONG WAVE INFRARED device of the present invention is apparently higher than the LONG WAVE INFRARED device of traditional structure.And calculated by Fig. 2,3, at long-wave band scope (8-12 μ m), the quantum efficiency of LONG WAVE INFRARED device of the present invention exceeds 45.3% than traditional structure.Fig. 4 is n-on-P of the present invention +the response spectrum curve of the Long Wave Infrared Probe of structure.As shown in Figure 4, LONG WAVE INFRARED device of the present invention can obtain narrowband response spectrum in the situation that not using filter, improves the detectivity of long-wave band.
As can be seen here, employing n-on-P of the present invention +or p-on-N +the organization plan of the infrared long wave photodiode chip of silicon-based tellurium-cadmium mercury of structure is feasible, rational.

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1. silicon-based tellurium-cadmium mercury long wave photodiode chip, its structure is followed successively by from bottom to top: Si substrate (1), CdTe resilient coating (2) with Si substrate strong bonded, micro-table top heterojunction photodiode (3) and climbing public electrode (4), the first indium pellet (5) is positioned on micro-table top heterojunction photodiode (3), the second indium pellet (6) is positioned on climbing public electrode, it is characterized in that: described micro-table top heterojunction photodiode (3) is n-on-P +or p-on-N +structure, wherein:
At n-on-P +in structure, N-shaped HgCdTe layer is In doping HgCdTe layer, and doping content is 1.0-15.0 * 10 15cm -3, thickness is 8.0-10.0 μ m; P +type HgCdTe layer is Hg room doping HgCdTe layer, and doping content is 1.0-8.0 * 10 17cm -3, thickness is 4.0-5.0 μ m;
At p-on-N +in structure, p-type HgCdTe layer is Hg room doping HgCdTe layer, and doping content is 1.0-15.0 * 10 15cm -3, thickness is 8.0-10.0 μ m; N +type HgCdTe layer is In doping HgCdTe layer, and doping content is 1.0-8.0 * 10 17cm -3, thickness is 4.0-5.0 μ m.
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