CN116344661A - InAs-InAsSb class-II superlattice infrared detector material structure working at high temperature - Google Patents

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CN116344661A
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The invention discloses a high-temperature working InAs-InAsSb class-II superlattice infrared detector material structure which sequentially comprises an n-type doped InAs/InAsSb lower electrode layer, an undoped n-type InAs/InAsSb absorption layer, an AlAsSb barrier layer B and an undoped n-type InAs/InAsSb upper electrode layer from bottom to top. The structure can obviously reduce the generation-recombination (G-R) and the Shore-Reed-Hall (SRH) dark current in the material, and has longer minority carrier lifetime. Can be prepared using a simpler MBE shutter control growth method. The detector has lower Ga-related material defects, can remarkably improve the working temperature of the detector, improve the size, weight, power consumption and cost (SWaPC) of the detector component, and improve the service life and performance of the detector.

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InAs-InAsSb class-II superlattice infrared detector material structure working at high temperature
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of superlattice-like infrared detectors, and particularly relates to a material structure of an InAs-InAsSb superlattice-like infrared detector working at high temperature.
Background
The infrared imaging system has the advantages of strong anti-interference capability, strong penetrating power, good concealment, adaptation to special occasions and the likeHave been widely used. The early-developed infrared detector has the problems of single wavelength, low quantum efficiency, low working temperature and the like, and greatly limits the application direction of the infrared detector technology. Currently, third generation infrared detectors require refrigerated and uncooled focal planes with high performance, high resolution, and multi-band detection capabilities. In recent years, higher demands are placed on miniaturization, low power consumption and fast start-up of infrared detectors, and lowering dark current in detector materials to raise operating temperature is one of the main directions of the technical research. InAs (InAs) x Sb 1-x Is a typical III-V ternary compound semiconductor material and is also an intrinsic III-V compound semiconductor with the minimum forbidden bandwidth discovered at present. The forbidden band width of InAsxSb1-x can reach 0.099eV (corresponding to the cut-off wavelength of 12.5 μm) or even smaller at room temperature. Conventional Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT) and indium antimonide (InSb) detectors need to be combined with a refrigerator to maintain working at a low liquid nitrogen temperature of 77K, and if the working temperature is increased, the dark current of the detector is rapidly increased exponentially, so that the service performance of the detector is seriously affected. Therefore, dark current caused by the detector material or device technology is reduced, the detection performance of the same dark current level can be maintained at a higher working temperature, so that the refrigeration load power consumption of the refrigerator is obviously improved, or the improved detection performance is obtained at the same low working temperature (such as 77K), and thus, the using targets of miniaturization, low power consumption and quick starting of the infrared detector can be realized.
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The system (lattice constant is close to +.>
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InAs, gaSb, alSb) of the Sb-based class II superlattice materials have great potential and design diversity that allow flexible adjustment of the bandgap width and design of more complex material structures to achieve high temperature or dual/multi-band detection requirements.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the following technical scheme: the high-temperature working InAs-InAsSb type superlattice infrared detector material structure comprises an n-type doped InAs/InAsSb lower electrode layer, an undoped n-type InAs/InAsSb absorption layer, an AlAsSb barrier layer B and an undoped n-type InAs/InAsSb upper electrode layer from bottom to top.
As the optimization of the technical scheme, the semiconductor device further comprises a GaAs substrate, a GaAs buffer layer and a GaSb buffer layer which are sequentially arranged, wherein the GaSb buffer layer is connected with the n-type doped InAs/InAsSb lower electrode layer.
As a preferable aspect of the above-described technical solution, the GaAs buffer layer has a thickness of 0.25 μm.
As a preferable aspect of the above-described technical solution, the thickness of the GaSb buffer layer is 1.2 μm.
As the preferable choice of the technical proposal, the n-type doped InAs/InAsSb lower electrode layer is InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 ,InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 Is of the thickness of
Figure BDA0004019594910000023
As the preferable choice of the technical proposal, the undoped InAs/InAsSb absorption layer is InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 ,InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 Is of the thickness of
Figure BDA0004019594910000024
As a preferable mode of the technical scheme, the AlAsSb barrier layer B is AlAs 0.085 Sb 0.915 In which a concentration of 1E+15cm is doped -3 Be, alAs of (2) 0.085 Sb 0.915 Is 120nm thick.
As the preferable choice of the technical proposal, the upper electrode layer of the non-doped InAs/InAsSb is InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 ,InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 Is of the thickness of
Figure BDA0004019594910000031
The working principle of the invention is as follows: the n-type InAs/InAsSb doped lower electrode layer is used as a contact electrode of the detector, the n-type InAs/InAsSb undoped absorbing layer is used as an infrared absorption main layer of the detector, the AlAsSb barrier layer B is used for blocking free flow of majority carrier electrons in conduction bands of the absorbing layer and the contact layer, so that dark current is reduced, and the n-type InAs/InAsSb undoped upper electrode layer is used as the contact electrode of the detector. The conduction band barrier effect can be formed between the n-type doped InAs/InAsSb lower electrode layer and the non-doped n-type InAs/InAsSb absorption layer, so that G-R and SRH dark currents formed in the conduction band due to thermal excitation or material defects are effectively prevented.
The beneficial effects of the invention are as follows: the structure can obviously reduce the generation-recombination (G-R) and the Shore-Reed-Hall (SRH) dark current in the material, and has longer minority carrier lifetime. Can be prepared using a simpler MBE shutter control growth method. The detector has lower Ga-related material defects, can remarkably improve the working temperature of the detector, improve the size, weight, power consumption and cost (SWaPC) of the detector component, and improve the service life and performance of the detector.
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The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made apparent and fully in view of the accompanying drawings, in which some, but not all embodiments of the invention are shown. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless explicitly specified and limited otherwise, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be either fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected, for example; can be mechanically or electrically connected; can be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, and can be communication between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention will be understood in specific cases by those of ordinary skill in the art.
Example 1
The method adopts MBE to carry out epitaxial growth of infrared detector materials, and comprises the following specific steps in sequence:
1) GaAs (100) with low cost and high transmission to infrared signals is adopted as a substrate;
2) Epitaxially growing a GaAs buffer layer of about 0.25 μm;
3) Carrying out As/Sb exchange treatment on the surface to gradually convert the surface into GaSb surface reconstruction;
4) Epitaxially growing a 1.2 μm GaSb buffer layer at a suitable temperature;
5) Epitaxial growth of 20 cycle n-type
Figure BDA0004019594910000041
-InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 A bottom contact layer, wherein Te is doped in the InAs layer: 1E+17cm -3
6) Epitaxial growth 525 cycles of approximately 2.6 μm undoped n-type
Figure BDA0004019594910000042
-InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 An absorption layer;
7) Epitaxial growth of 120nm AlAs 0.085 Sb 0.915 (Be doped: 1E+15cm) -3 ) The layer acts as a unipolar electron barrier layer;
epitaxial growth of about 67nm undoped n-type for 16 cycles
Figure BDA0004019594910000043
-InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 As the upper contact electrode layer.
Example 1 an energy band structure diagram of a material structure of an InAs-InAsSb type superlattice infrared detector is shown in fig. 2, in an ideal case, the energy level difference between the valence band of the barrier layer B and the valence band of the absorption layer should be zero, the potential barrier is all located in the conduction band, and the photo-generated minority carrier holes in the valence band can freely move to reach both ends of the detector electrode to participate in the generation of infrared optical signals. The barrier can block free movement of photo-generated or thermally generated majority carrier electrons of the electrode layer and the absorption layer, and only photo-generated minority carrier holes of the absorption region can reach two ends of the electrode in an unimpeded manner to generate photo-generated electric signals.
It should be noted that technical features such as MBE and the like related to the present application should be considered as the prior art, and specific structures, working principles, and control manners and spatial arrangements possibly related to the technical features should be selected conventionally in the art, and should not be considered as the point of the present application, where the present application is not further specifically developed.
While the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail, it should be appreciated that numerous modifications and variations may be made in accordance with the principles of the present invention by those skilled in the art without undue burden, and thus, all technical solutions which may be obtained by logic analysis, reasoning or limited experimentation based on the principles of the present invention as defined by the claims are within the scope of protection as defined by the present invention.

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1. The material structure of the high-temperature working InAs-InAsSb type superlattice infrared detector is characterized by comprising an n-type doped InAs/InAsSb lower electrode layer, an undoped n-type InAs/InAsSb absorption layer, an AlAsSb barrier layer B and an undoped n-type InAs/InAsSb upper electrode layer from bottom to top.
2. The high-temperature working InAs-InAsSb type superlattice infrared detector material structure according to claim 2, further comprising a GaAs substrate, a GaAs buffer layer, and a GaSb buffer layer sequentially disposed, the GaSb buffer layer being connected to the n-type doped InAs/InAsSb bottom electrode layer.
3. The high temperature operation InAs-InAsSb-type superlattice infrared detector material structure according to claim 2, wherein said GaAs buffer layer has a thickness of 0.25 μm.
4. The high temperature operation InAs-InAsSb-type superlattice infrared detector material structure according to claim 2, wherein said GaSb buffer layer has a thickness of 1.2 μm.
5. The high-temperature working InAs-InAsSb class-II superlattice infrared detector material structure as defined in claim 2, wherein said n-type doped InAs/InAsSb lower electrode layer is InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 ,InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 Is of the thickness of
Figure FDA0004019594900000011
6. The high-temperature working InAs-InAsSb class-II superlattice infrared detector material structure as defined in claim 2, wherein said undoped InAs/InAsSb absorption layer is InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 ,InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 Is of the thickness of
Figure FDA0004019594900000012
7. The high-temperature working InAs-InAsSb class-II superlattice infrared detector material structure as defined in claim 2, wherein said AlAsSb barrier layer B is AlAs 0.085 Sb 0.915 In which a concentration of 1E+15cm is doped -3 Be, alAs of (2) 0.085 Sb 0.915 Is 120nm thick.
8. The high-temperature working InAs-InAsSb class-II superlattice infrared detector material structure as defined in claim 2, wherein said undoped InAs/InAsSb upper electrode layer is InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 ,InAs/InAs 0.66 Sb 0.34 Is of the thickness of
Figure FDA0004019594900000021
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