DE69218474D1 - Lawinenfotodiode - Google Patents

Lawinenfotodiode

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DE69218474D1
DE69218474D1 DE69218474T DE69218474T DE69218474D1 DE 69218474 D1 DE69218474 D1 DE 69218474D1 DE 69218474 T DE69218474 T DE 69218474T DE 69218474 T DE69218474 T DE 69218474T DE 69218474 D1 DE69218474 D1 DE 69218474D1
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photo diode
avalanche photo
avalanche
diode
photo
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DE69218474T
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DE69218474T2 (de
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Masayoshi Tsuji
Kikuo Makita
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NEC Corp
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NEC Corp
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Priority claimed from JP3008179A external-priority patent/JP2730297B2/ja
Priority claimed from JP3064266A external-priority patent/JP2936770B2/ja
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Publication of DE69218474T2 publication Critical patent/DE69218474T2/de
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L31/00—Semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof
    • H01L31/08—Semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof in which radiation controls flow of current through the device, e.g. photoresistors
    • H01L31/10—Semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof in which radiation controls flow of current through the device, e.g. photoresistors characterised by potential barriers, e.g. phototransistors
    • H01L31/101—Devices sensitive to infrared, visible or ultraviolet radiation
    • H01L31/102—Devices sensitive to infrared, visible or ultraviolet radiation characterised by only one potential barrier
    • H01L31/107—Devices sensitive to infrared, visible or ultraviolet radiation characterised by only one potential barrier the potential barrier working in avalanche mode, e.g. avalanche photodiodes
    • H01L31/1075—Devices sensitive to infrared, visible or ultraviolet radiation characterised by only one potential barrier the potential barrier working in avalanche mode, e.g. avalanche photodiodes in which the active layers, e.g. absorption or multiplication layers, form an heterostructure, e.g. SAM structure
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B82—NANOTECHNOLOGY
    • B82Y—SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES
    • B82Y20/00—Nanooptics, e.g. quantum optics or photonic crystals
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L31/00—Semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof
    • H01L31/0248—Semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof characterised by their semiconductor bodies
    • H01L31/0352—Semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation; Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment thereof or of parts thereof; Details thereof characterised by their semiconductor bodies characterised by their shape or by the shapes, relative sizes or disposition of the semiconductor regions
    • H01L31/035236—Superlattices; Multiple quantum well structures
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S977/00—Nanotechnology
    • Y10S977/70—Nanostructure
    • Y10S977/755—Nanosheet or quantum barrier/well, i.e. layer structure having one dimension or thickness of 100 nm or less
    • Y10S977/76—Superlattice with graded effective bandgap, e.g. "chirp-graded" superlattice
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S977/00—Nanotechnology
    • Y10S977/70—Nanostructure
    • Y10S977/755—Nanosheet or quantum barrier/well, i.e. layer structure having one dimension or thickness of 100 nm or less
    • Y10S977/761—Superlattice with well or barrier thickness adapted for increasing the reflection, transmission, or filtering of carriers having energies above the bulk-form conduction or valence band energy level of the well or barrier, i.e. well or barrier with n-integer-λ-carrier-/4 thickness
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S977/00—Nanotechnology
    • Y10S977/70—Nanostructure
    • Y10S977/813—Of specified inorganic semiconductor composition, e.g. periodic table group IV-VI compositions
    • Y10S977/815—Group III-V based compounds, e.g. AlaGabIncNxPyAsz

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Microelectronics & Electronic Packaging (AREA)
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  • Electromagnetism (AREA)
  • Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
  • Condensed Matter Physics & Semiconductors (AREA)
  • Power Engineering (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Nanotechnology (AREA)
  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Biophysics (AREA)
  • Optics & Photonics (AREA)
  • Crystallography & Structural Chemistry (AREA)
  • Light Receiving Elements (AREA)
DE69218474T 1991-01-28 1992-01-28 Lawinenfotodiode Expired - Fee Related DE69218474T2 (de)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
JP3008179A JP2730297B2 (ja) 1991-01-28 1991-01-28 半導体受光素子
JP3064266A JP2936770B2 (ja) 1991-03-28 1991-03-28 半導体受光素子

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DE69218474D1 true DE69218474D1 (de) 1997-04-30
DE69218474T2 DE69218474T2 (de) 1997-08-07

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EP (1) EP0497279B1 (de)
DE (1) DE69218474T2 (de)

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JP2998375B2 (ja) * 1991-12-20 2000-01-11 日本電気株式会社 アバランシェフォトダイオード
JPH07115184A (ja) * 1993-08-24 1995-05-02 Canon Inc 積層型固体撮像装置及びその製造方法
US5593902A (en) * 1994-05-23 1997-01-14 Texas Instruments Incorporated Method of making photodiodes for low dark current operation having geometric enhancement
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US5610416A (en) * 1995-02-16 1997-03-11 Hewlett-Packard Company Avalanche photodiode with epitaxially regrown guard rings
US5771256A (en) * 1996-06-03 1998-06-23 Bell Communications Research, Inc. InP-based lasers with reduced blue shifts
US5866936A (en) * 1997-04-01 1999-02-02 Hewlett-Packard Company Mesa-structure avalanche photodiode having a buried epitaxial junction
JP3014341B2 (ja) * 1997-04-25 2000-02-28 カナレ電気株式会社 量子波干渉層を有したダイオード
US5757057A (en) * 1997-06-25 1998-05-26 Advanced Photonix, Inc. Large area avalanche photodiode array
US5831322A (en) * 1997-06-25 1998-11-03 Advanced Photonix, Inc. Active large area avalanche photodiode array
US6294795B1 (en) 1998-04-28 2001-09-25 Canare Electric Co., Ltd. Light-receiving device with quantum-wave interference layers
JP3014364B2 (ja) 1998-05-26 2000-02-28 カナレ電気株式会社 量子波干渉層を有した半導体素子
US7045833B2 (en) * 2000-09-29 2006-05-16 Board Of Regents, The University Of Texas System Avalanche photodiodes with an impact-ionization-engineered multiplication region
JP6593140B2 (ja) * 2015-12-09 2019-10-23 住友電気工業株式会社 フォトダイオード
CN107863403B (zh) * 2017-11-28 2023-10-20 中国工程物理研究院电子工程研究所 一种高线性增益红外雪崩光电二极管及其制备方法
EP3821472A4 (de) * 2018-07-11 2022-03-02 SRI International Linearmodus-lawinenphotodioden ohne übermässiges rauschen

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JPS5861679A (ja) * 1981-10-07 1983-04-12 Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd <Kdd> 量子井戸層付アバランシ・ホトダイオ−ド
US4553317A (en) * 1981-11-09 1985-11-19 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Method of obtaining an impact ionization coefficient rate by junction of different kinds of semiconductors
JPH01144687A (ja) * 1987-11-30 1989-06-06 Nec Corp 半導体受光素子
JPH01194476A (ja) * 1988-01-29 1989-08-04 Nec Corp 半導体受光素子
JPH0210780A (ja) * 1988-06-28 1990-01-16 Nec Corp 半導体受光素子
JPH02119274A (ja) * 1988-10-28 1990-05-07 Fujitsu Ltd アバランシェフォトダイオード
US4942436A (en) * 1988-10-31 1990-07-17 Polaroid Corporation Superlattice avalanche photodetector
JPH0821727B2 (ja) * 1988-11-18 1996-03-04 日本電気株式会社 アバランシェフォトダイオード
JPH02246381A (ja) * 1989-03-20 1990-10-02 Fujitsu Ltd 超格子アバランシェホトダイオード

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US5204539A (en) 1993-04-20

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