CN114664968A - Visible-infrared dual-waveband photoelectric detector - Google Patents
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Abstract
According to the visible-infrared dual-band photoelectric detector provided by the embodiment of the invention, the PIN photoelectric detection structure and the metal-semiconductor contact interface barrier structure are utilized, the visible-infrared dual-band detection function of the photoelectric detector is realized while the quantum efficiency of the middle and far infrared bands is improved. The visible light is fully absorbed and detected by the PIN structure when the light vertically enters, the silicon has good transmission performance on the light of the infrared band, the light of the infrared band penetrates through the substrate layer and is reflected through the metal film reflecting layer, the light of the infrared band is reflected to the microstructure layer, the absorption on the light of the infrared band is enhanced by utilizing the characteristics of the microstructure layer, so that current carriers obtain energy and jump to a Fermi level, the energy and the energy cross a potential barrier to enter the semiconductor substrate, electrons and holes are respectively collected by metal electrodes on two sides, the light of the infrared band is absorbed and detected with high quantum conversion efficiency, and visible-infrared dual-band detection is realized.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of photoelectricity, in particular to a visible-infrared dual-waveband photoelectric detector.
Background
The silicon-based photoelectric detector is used as a dominant force of a visible light and near infrared band detection device, has the advantages of high efficiency, low power consumption, small volume, vibration resistance, low price, easiness in circuit integration and the like, and is widely applied to various fields. Because the band gap width of silicon is about 1.1eV, silicon responds in visible light and near infrared wave bands, but for photons with energy less than 1.1eV, the forbidden bandwidth of silicon material is relatively large, so that the light absorption of the silicon photoelectric detector in the middle and far infrared wave bands is almost zero, the development of the silicon photoelectric detector in the near infrared and middle and far infrared light wave bands with the wavelength more than 1.1 μm is restricted to a certain extent, and the existing silicon photoelectric detector mainly performs single-wave band spectrum detection, the detection spectrum range is limited, the silicon photoelectric detector has limitation in wide-wave band detection, and the application of the silicon photoelectric detector in some fields is limited.
Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the invention provides a visible-infrared dual-band photoelectric detector which can be used for absorbing and detecting infrared band light with high quantum conversion efficiency and realizing visible-infrared dual-band detection. Compared with the traditional detector, the invention can greatly improve the detection spectrum range and expand the application field.
An embodiment of the present invention provides a visible-infrared dual band photodetector, including:
a semiconductor substrate layer;
the metal reflecting layer is positioned on one surface of the semiconductor substrate layer, and a reflecting surface structure is arranged on one side, which is attached to the semiconductor substrate layer, of the metal reflecting layer;
the first-type semiconductor layer is positioned on the other side, opposite to the semiconductor substrate layer;
the microstructure layer and the second type semiconductor layer are arranged on the first type semiconductor layer at intervals;
a first anode on the microstructure layer;
a third type semiconductor layer on the second type semiconductor layer;
the first cathode is positioned on the third type semiconductor layer and is provided with a hollow structure for light to pass through;
and the second cathode and the second anode are positioned on the first type semiconductor layer and are respectively arranged at intervals with the first cathode and the first anode, the first anode and the second cathode form one group of electrodes, and the second anode and the first cathode form the other group of electrodes.
As an optional solution, the material of the semiconductor substrate layer is one of silicon, germanium and SOI, the first type semiconductor layer is a P type semiconductor layer or an N type semiconductor layer, the second type semiconductor layer is I type intrinsic, and the third type semiconductor layer is an N type semiconductor layer or a P type semiconductor layer.
As an alternative, the material of the insulating layer is polyimide, polymethyl methacrylate, epoxy resin or SiO2Any one of the above.
As an optional scheme, the material of the first anode, the first cathode, the second anode and the second cathode is one or more of gold, silver, copper, aluminum, chromium, nickel and titanium.
As an alternative, the P-type semiconductor layer is doped with B3+The doped ions of the N-type semiconductor layer are P5+Or As5+。
As an optional scheme, the microstructure layer is one or more of a metal directly plated on silicon to form an alloy film, a metal plated on porous silicon to form an alloy film, a metal plated on silicon with a grating structure to form an alloy film, or a metal plated on a two-dimensional material composed of black phosphorus and graphene, wherein the alloy film is PtSi or Pt2Si, and the corresponding metal is Pt.
As an alternative, the reflective surface structure is located at a geometric center of the metal reflective layer, and the reflective surface structure, the hollow structure, the second type semiconductor layer, and the third semiconductor layer are collinear in a vertical direction.
As an alternative, the visible-infrared dual-band photodetector has a cross-section of a circle, a square, or a hexagon.
As an alternative, the reflecting surface structure is a cone.
As an alternative, the method comprises the following steps: the step type structure, the step type structure includes one and is located first boss that first type semiconductor layer geometric centre put and be located the second boss that the geometric centre of first boss put, first positive pole the second positive pole with the micro-structure layer is located on the first boss, first negative pole second type semiconductor layer is located on the second boss, first positive pole with be equipped with the insulating layer between the second positive pole.
As an alternative, the method comprises the following steps: the planar structure comprises a third boss which is positioned on the first type semiconductor layer and surrounds the second type semiconductor layer, the micro-structure layer and the second anode are positioned on the third boss, and the first anode, the first cathode and the second anode are positioned on the same horizontal plane.
According to the visible-infrared dual-band photoelectric detector provided by the embodiment of the invention, the PIN photoelectric detection structure and the metal-semiconductor contact interface barrier structure are utilized, the visible-infrared dual-band detection function of the photoelectric detector is realized while the quantum efficiency of the middle and far infrared bands is improved. The visible light is fully absorbed and detected through the PIN structure when light is vertically incident, and since silicon has good transmission performance to light of an infrared band, the light of the infrared band penetrates through the substrate layer and is reflected through the metal film reflecting layer, the light of the infrared band is reflected to the microstructure layer, the absorption to the light of the infrared band is enhanced by utilizing the characteristics of the microstructure layer, so that current carriers obtain energy and jump to a Fermi energy level, the energy and the energy cross a potential barrier to enter a semiconductor substrate, electrons and holes are respectively collected by metal electrodes on two sides, the absorption and detection of high quantum conversion efficiency are carried out on the light of the infrared band, and visible-infrared dual-band detection is realized. Compared with the traditional detector, the invention can greatly improve the detection spectrum range and broaden the application field.
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FIG. 1 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of a visible-infrared dual band photodetector configuration in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2a is a top view of a circular shape of a visible-infrared dual band photodetector provided in an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2b is a top view of a square shape of a visible-infrared dual band photodetector provided in an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2c is a top view of a hexagonal shape of a visible-infrared dual band photodetector provided in an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an operating optical path of a visible-infrared dual-band photodetector provided in an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of an alternative visible-infrared dual band photodetector configuration provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an operating optical path of an alternative visible-infrared dual-band photodetector provided in an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 6a is a top view of a circular shape of an alternative visible-infrared dual band photodetector provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 6b is a top view of a square shape of an alternative visible-infrared dual band photodetector provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 6c is a top view of a hexagonal shape of another visible-infrared dual band photodetector provided in an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 7a is a schematic structural diagram of a micro-structural layer in a visible-infrared dual-band photodetector according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 7b is a schematic structural diagram of a micro-structural layer in an alternative visible-infrared dual-band photodetector provided in an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 7c is a schematic structural diagram of a micro-structural layer in a visible-infrared dual-band photodetector according to yet another embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 7d is a schematic structural diagram of a micro-structural layer in another visible-infrared dual-band photodetector according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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In order to make the technical solutions of the present invention better understood, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without making any creative effort based on the embodiments in the present invention, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
The terms "first," "second," "third," "fourth," and the like in the description and in the claims, as well as in the drawings, are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It will be appreciated that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments described herein may be practiced otherwise than as specifically illustrated or described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.
Referring to fig. 1, an embodiment of the present invention provides a visible-infrared dual-band photodetector, including:
a semiconductor substrate layer 6;
the metal reflecting layer 7 is positioned on one surface of the semiconductor substrate layer 6, and a reflecting surface structure is arranged on one side, attached to the semiconductor substrate layer 6, of the metal reflecting layer 7;
a first type semiconductor layer 5 on the other side of the semiconductor substrate layer 6 opposite to the other side;
the microstructure layer 4 and the second type semiconductor layer 3 are arranged on the first type semiconductor layer 5 at intervals;
a first anode 10 on the microstructure layer 4;
a third type semiconductor layer 2 on the second type semiconductor layer 3;
the first cathode 1 is positioned on the third type semiconductor layer 2, the first cathode 1 has a hollow structure for light to pass through, and the hollow structure can be an annular opening for light to pass through;
and a second cathode 9 and a second anode 8 which are positioned on the first type semiconductor layer 5 and are respectively arranged at intervals with the first cathode 1 and the first anode 10, wherein the first anode 10 and the second cathode 9 form one group of electrodes, the second anode 8 and the first cathode 1 form another group of electrodes, and the two pairs of electrodes are not connected with each other.
It should be noted that the positional relationship mentioned in the embodiments of the present invention is referred to the vertical and horizontal positional relationship shown in the drawings for easy understanding.
As an optional scheme, the material of the semiconductor substrate layer 6 is one of Silicon, germanium, and SOI (Silicon-On-Insulator, Silicon On an insulating substrate), where the SOI may implement dielectric isolation of components in an integrated circuit, the first type semiconductor layer 5 is a P-type semiconductor layer or an N-type semiconductor layer, the second type semiconductor layer 3 is an I-type intrinsic layer, and the third type semiconductor layer 2 is an N-type semiconductor layer or a P-type semiconductor layer, and it is required to ensure that doping conditions are opposite, that is, when the first type semiconductor layer 5 is a P-type semiconductor layer, the third type semiconductor layer 2 is an N-type semiconductor layer, and when positions of the P-type semiconductor layer and the N-type semiconductor layer are switched, a cathode and an anode are switched correspondingly.
By the scheme, the visible-infrared dual-band detection problem can be effectively solved while the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the infrared spectrum band can be enhanced. By adopting the PIN structure, visible light is vertically incident to the absorption region of the detector from the top layer and is fully absorbed and detected after a P-type (or N-type) semiconductor layer or an I-type (intrinsic) semiconductor layer, meanwhile, because silicon has good transmittance to light in an infrared band, the transmitted light in the infrared band is reflected to the microstructure silicon layer by adopting the metal reflecting layer, so that the light in the infrared band is fully absorbed and detected, and the light in each band enters the respective complete absorption region, thereby realizing double-band detection, greatly improving the detection spectral range and widening the application field. Meanwhile, the structure and the thickness of the micro-structural layer are reasonably arranged, so that the absorption of the middle and far infrared wave bands is enhanced, and meanwhile, the photoelectric conversion efficiency is improved.
In this embodiment, the material of the insulating layer 11 may be polyimide, polymethyl methacrylate, epoxy resin, or SiO2Any one of them can be flexibly selected by a person skilled in the art according to needs, and is not limited to this.
In this embodiment, the P-type semiconductor layer is doped with B3+The doped ions of the N-type semiconductor layer are P5+Or As5+The person skilled in the art can select the compound according to the needs, without limitation.
In some embodiments, the material of the first anode 10, the first cathode 1, the second anode 8 and the second cathode 9 is one or more of gold, silver, copper, aluminum, chromium, nickel and titanium.
In some embodiments, the reflective surface structure is located at the geometric center of the metal reflective layer, the reflective surface structure, the hollow structure, the second type semiconductor layer 3, and the third semiconductor layer 2 are collinear in the vertical direction, and the reflective surface structure is a cone.
Further, the structures of the visible-infrared dual-band photoelectric detector can be divided into two types, namely a step-type structure and a planar structure, which are described below.
Referring to fig. 1 and fig. 3, in some embodiments, the step structure includes a first protrusion 51 located at a geometric center of the first type semiconductor layer 5 and a second protrusion 52 located at a geometric center of the first protrusion 51, the first anode 10, the second anode 8 and the microstructure layer 4 are located on the first protrusion 51, the first cathode 1 and the second type semiconductor layer 3 are located on the second protrusion 52, an insulating layer 11 is disposed between the first anode 10 and the second anode 8, the insulating layer 11 is used to isolate the first anode 10 from the second anode 8, and to prevent crosstalk, specifically, the step structure is arranged according to the device structure from top to bottom: the semiconductor device comprises a first cathode 1, a third type semiconductor layer 2, a second type semiconductor layer 3, a second anode 8, a second cathode 9, a first anode 10, an insulating layer 11, a microstructure layer 4, a first type semiconductor layer 5, a semiconductor substrate layer 6 and a metal reflecting layer 7.
In some embodiments of the stepped structure, as shown in fig. 2a, 2b and 2c, the cross section of the visible-infrared dual-band photodetector is circular, square or hexagonal, and the electrode includes an anode and a cathode, and accordingly, the shape of the electrode may be adapted according to the overall shape, for example, in the case of circular, the electrode may surround at intervals along the center in a concentric circle manner, and similarly, in the case of square or hexagonal, the electrode may be disposed in a concentric circle manner, and the shape of the anode and the cathode may be one or a combination of several of outer ring, single bar, multiple bars, circular, inner ring and inner polygon, and may be selected according to the requirement.
As shown in fig. 4 and fig. 5, in some embodiments, the planar structure includes a third protrusion 53 located on the first type semiconductor layer 5 and surrounding the second type semiconductor layer 3, the microstructure layer 4 and the second anode 8 are located on the third protrusion 53, and the first anode 10, the first cathode 1 and the second anode 8 are located on the same horizontal plane, specifically, the planar structure is, from top to bottom: the solar cell comprises a first cathode 1, a first anode 10, a third type semiconductor layer 2, a microstructure layer 4, a second type semiconductor layer 3, a first type semiconductor layer 5, a second anode 8, a second cathode 9, a semiconductor substrate layer 6 and a metal reflecting layer 7.
In some embodiments of the planar structure, as shown in fig. 6a, 6b and 6c, the cross section of the visible-infrared dual-band photodetector is circular, square or hexagonal, and the electrodes include an anode and a cathode, and accordingly, the shape of the electrodes may be adapted according to the overall shape, for example, in the case of circular, the electrodes may be spaced and surrounded along the center in a concentric circle manner, and similarly, in the case of square or hexagonal, the electrodes may be disposed in a concentric surrounding manner, and the shape of the anode and the cathode may be one or a combination of several of outer ring, single bar, multiple bars, circular, inner ring and inner polygon, and may be selected according to the requirement.
Referring to fig. 7a, 7b, 7c and 7d, in some embodiments, the microstructure layer is formed by plating a corresponding metal on silicon to form an alloy thin film, plating a corresponding metal on porous silicon to form an alloy thin film, plating a corresponding metal on silicon with a grating structure to form an alloy thin film, or plating one or more corresponding metals on a two-dimensional material composed of PtSi, Pt, or graphene, and the alloy thin film is PtSi, Pt, or an alloy thin film formed by plating a corresponding metal on silicon with a grating structure2Si, etc., wherein the corresponding metal is Pt, etc., 13 is a metal Pt film, 14 is a P-type (or N-type) silicon layer, 15 is a porous P-type (or N-type) silicon layer, 16 is a grating structure P-type (or N-type) silicon layer, and 17 is a P-type (or N-type) black phosphorus layer (or graphene layer).
In order to improve the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the middle and far infrared bands, a micro-structure layer is designed and adopted, the micro-structure layer usually comprises a porous structure, an optical cavity structure, a grating structure, a two-dimensional material and the like, the absorption of infrared light is enhanced by increasing the specific surface area and utilizing external field reflection or surface plasmon, the photoelectric conversion efficiency is improved to a certain extent, and the optimal quantum efficiency and frequency response are obtained.
The device comprises a plurality of metal electrodes and a plurality of doped layers, and is mainly divided into two parts, wherein the middle part mainly realizes high-performance detection on a visible light wave band and is sequentially provided with a P-type (or N-type) semiconductor, an I-type (intrinsic) semiconductor and an N-type (or P-type) semiconductor from top to bottom; the two side parts mainly realize high-performance detection of infrared bands and sequentially comprise a microstructure layer, an N-type (or P-type) semiconductor, a substrate layer and a metal reflecting layer from top to bottom.
The working principle of the visible-infrared dual-band detector provided in the embodiment of the present invention is described by taking the third type semiconductor layer 2 as the P type semiconductor layer and the second type semiconductor layer 3 as the I type semiconductor layer:
as shown in fig. 3 and 7, after the light enters the detector, the visible light is partially absorbed after the light enters the third-type semiconductor layer 2 or the second-type semiconductor layer 3; in the infrared band, because silicon in the semiconductor substrate layer 6 has good transmission performance to the semiconductor substrate layer, infrared band light passes through the semiconductor substrate layer 6, is incident on the metal reflecting layer 7 to be reflected, and is reflected to the micro-structural layer 4 to be absorbed. In the visible light absorption region (PIN structure): light rays in the P area and the I area are excited in a light injection mode to generate electron-hole pairs, and electrons and holes rapidly move towards the N area and the P area in a directional mode under the action of an electric field to form photocurrent; in the infrared absorption region: for an infrared band, a metal-semiconductor contact interface barrier structure with a microstructure is adopted, incident light is reflected to the microstructure layer 4 through the metal reflecting layer 7, for an N-type semiconductor, a Schottky barrier structure is formed after the metal is contacted with the semiconductor, infrared photons penetrate through the semiconductor layer and are absorbed by the microstructure layer, electrons are enabled to obtain energy and jump to a Fermi level, holes are left to cross the barrier and enter the semiconductor substrate, and the electrons of the microstructure layer are collected to finish infrared detection; for a P-type semiconductor, ohmic contact is formed after metal and the semiconductor are contacted, infrared photons are absorbed by the microstructure layer through the semiconductor layer, a small potential barrier exists when holes enter the semiconductor from the metal, and the holes can easily cross the potential barrier to enter the semiconductor by a small voltage to finish infrared detection. And finally, collecting the electrons and the holes by the metal electrodes on the two sides to realize visible-infrared dual-band detection.
According to the visible-infrared dual-band photoelectric detector provided by the embodiment of the invention, the PIN photoelectric detection structure and the metal-semiconductor contact interface barrier structure are utilized, the visible-infrared dual-band detection function of the photoelectric detector is realized while the quantum efficiency of the middle and far infrared bands is improved. The visible light is fully absorbed and detected through the PIN structure when light is vertically incident, and since silicon has good transmission performance to light of an infrared band, the light of the infrared band penetrates through the substrate layer and is reflected through the metal film reflecting layer, the light of the infrared band is reflected to the microstructure layer, the absorption to the light of the infrared band is enhanced by utilizing the characteristics of the microstructure layer, so that current carriers obtain energy and jump to a Fermi energy level, the energy and the energy cross a potential barrier to enter a semiconductor substrate, electrons and holes are respectively collected by metal electrodes on two sides, the absorption and detection of high quantum conversion efficiency are carried out on the light of the infrared band, and visible-infrared dual-band detection is realized. Compared with the traditional detector, the invention can greatly improve the detection spectrum range and broaden the application field.
The above-described embodiments should not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications, combinations, sub-combinations and substitutions may be made in accordance with design requirements and other factors. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. A visible-infrared dual band photodetector, comprising:
a semiconductor substrate layer;
the metal reflecting layer is positioned on one side of the semiconductor substrate layer, and a reflecting surface structure is arranged on one side, which is attached to the semiconductor substrate layer, of the metal reflecting layer;
the first-type semiconductor layer is positioned on the other side, opposite to the semiconductor substrate layer;
the microstructure layer and the second type semiconductor layer are arranged on the first type semiconductor layer at intervals;
a first anode on the microstructure layer;
a third type semiconductor layer on the second type semiconductor layer;
the first cathode is positioned on the third type semiconductor layer and is provided with a hollow structure for light to pass through;
and the second cathode and the second anode are positioned on the first type semiconductor layer and are respectively arranged at intervals with the first cathode and the first anode, the first anode and the second cathode form one group of electrodes, and the second anode and the first cathode form the other group of electrodes.
2. The visible-infrared dual-band photodetector of claim 1, wherein the material of the semiconductor substrate layer is one of silicon, germanium, and SOI, the first type semiconductor layer is a P-type semiconductor layer or an N-type semiconductor layer, the second type semiconductor layer is I-type intrinsic, and the third type semiconductor layer is an N-type semiconductor layer or a P-type semiconductor layer.
3. The visible-infrared dual-band photodetector of claim 1 or 2, wherein the material of the first anode, the first cathode, the second anode and the second cathode is one or more of gold, silver, copper, aluminum, chromium, nickel and titanium.
4. The visible-infrared dual-band photodetector of claim 2, wherein the P-type semiconductor layer dopant ion is B3+The doped ions of the N-type semiconductor layer are P5+Or As5+。
5. The visible-infrared dual-band photodetector of claim 1, wherein the micro-structure layer is one or more of a metal alloy film formed by directly plating corresponding metal on silicon, a metal alloy film formed by plating corresponding metal on porous silicon, an alloy film formed by plating corresponding metal on silicon with a grating structure, or a metal alloy film formed by plating corresponding metal on a two-dimensional material composed of black phosphorus and graphene, and the alloy film is PtSi, Pt, or a combination thereof2Si, and the corresponding metal is Pt.
6. The visible-infrared dual-band photodetector of claim 1, wherein the reflector structure is located at a geometric center of the metallic reflective layer, and the reflector structure, the hollowed-out structure, the second type semiconductor layer, and the third semiconductor layer are collinear in a vertical direction.
7. The visible-infrared dual-band photodetector of claim 1, wherein the visible-infrared dual-band photodetector has a cross-section that is circular, square, or hexagonal.
8. The visible-infrared dual band photodetector of claim 6, wherein the reflective surface structure is a cone.
9. The visible-infrared dual-band photodetector of any one of claims 1 to 8, comprising: the step type structure, the step type structure includes one and is located first boss that first type semiconductor layer geometry central point put and be located the second boss that the geometry central point of first boss put, first positive pole the second positive pole with the micro-structure layer is located on the first boss, first negative pole second type semiconductor layer is located on the second boss, first positive pole with be equipped with the insulating layer between the second positive pole.
10. The visible-infrared dual-band photodetector of any one of claims 1 to 8, comprising: the planar structure comprises a third boss which is positioned on the first type semiconductor layer and surrounds the second type semiconductor layer, the micro-structure layer and the second anode are positioned on the third boss, and the first anode, the first cathode and the second anode are positioned on the same horizontal plane.
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