KR101263310B1 - Optical receiver and method of forming the same - Google Patents
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An optical receiver and a method of forming the same are provided. The photoreceiver includes a lens integrated on the back side of the substrate, a photodetector on the front side of the substrate and a heterojunction bipolar transistor on the front side of the substrate, wherein the lens collects and transmits the incident optical signal to the photodetector.
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The present invention relates to an optical receiver and a method of forming the same, and more particularly, to an optical receiver having a photodetector and a heterojunction bipolar transistor, and a method of forming the same.
Photodetectors are devices that use an internal photoelectric effect, a method in which injected photons produce electrons and holes, which are free charge carriers in a semiconductor. For example, such devices include pn junction photodiodes, positive intrinsic negative (PIN) photodiodes, and avalanche photodiodes.
The optical receiver mainly used in the laser radar system may have a structure in which a PIN photodiode and a heterojunction bipolar transistor are integrated. However, the photodetector of such a photoreceptor is not easy to control the electric field across the In (0.53) Ga (0.47) As layer with a very small band gap to absorb light. As a result, leakage current due to tunneling may be generated, thereby limiting the size of the applied electric field. In addition, since the amount of light incident on the surface of the photodetector is limited, the light in the region beyond the surface of the photodetector is lost due to a loss, thereby limiting the external quantum efficiency.
The PIN photodiode has a disadvantage in that it is difficult to fabricate an optical receiver integrated with an optical detector having excellent reception sensitivity because the PIN photodiode cannot have a gain in the electrical conversion of the optical signal.
An object of the present invention is to provide an optical receiver with improved external quantum efficiency and a method of forming the same.
An optical receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a lens integrated on a substrate backside, a photodetector on the front surface of the substrate, and a heterojunction bipolar transistor on the front surface of the substrate, wherein the lens collects an incident optical signal and transmits the light signal to the photodetector. do.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the photodetector may include an amplification layer on the substrate, and an absorption layer on the amplification layer.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the amplification layer may include a p-type InAlAs layer and an n-type InAlAs layer.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the absorption layer may include n-type InGaAs.
The photodetector according to the embodiment of the present invention may further include an ohmic layer made of p-type InGaAsP and a current moving layer made of n-type InGaAs on the absorbing layer between the substrate and the amplification layer.
The heterojunction bipolar transistor includes a subcollector layer on the substrate and a collector layer on the subcollector layer, wherein the subcollector layer is made of the same material as the absorber layer, and the collector layer is made of the same material as the current transfer layer. Can be configured.
The heterojunction bipolar transistor further includes a first dummy layer between the sub collector layer and the substrate and a second dummy layer between the first dummy layer and the sub collector layer, wherein the first dummy layer is the ohmic layer. Is made of the same material as the second dummy layer may be made of the same material as the amplification layer.
A method of forming an optical receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention is to prepare a substrate including a first region and a second region, to form a lens on the back of the substrate of the first region, the front of the substrate of the first region Forming a photodetector on the substrate, and forming a heterojunction bipolar transistor on the entire surface of the substrate in the second region.
Forming the photodetector and the heterojunction bipolar transistor comprises forming a p + type InGaAsP layer on the substrate in the first region and the second region, forming a p + type InAlAs layer on the p + type InGaAsP layer, forming an n + type InAlAs layer on the p + type InAlAs layer, forming an n + type InGaAs layer on the n + type InAlAs layer, and forming an n− type InGaAs layer on the n + type InGaAs layer Can be.
The photodetector may be formed by patterning the p + type InGaAsP layer, the p + type InAlAs layer, the n + type InAlAs layer, the n + type InGaAs layer, and the n type InGaAs layer, respectively, in the first region. The method may further include forming an ohmic layer on the p-type amplification layer on the ohmic layer, an n-type amplification layer on the p-type amplification layer, an absorption layer on the n-type amplification layer, and a current transfer layer on the absorption layer.
Forming the heterojunction bipolar transistor comprises forming a p + type InGaAs layer on the n− type InGaAs layer on the second region, forming an n− type InP layer on the p + type InGaAs layer, and The method may further include forming an n + type InGaAs layer on the n− type InP layer.
The heterojunction bipolar transistor may be formed by patterning the p + type InGaAsP layer in the second region to form a first dummy layer, and patterning the p + type InAlAs layer and the n + type InAlAs layer to form a p type dummy layer and n The method may further include forming a dummy layer, forming a subcollector layer by patterning the n + type InGaAs layer, and forming a collector layer by patterning the n− type InGaAs layer.
Forming the heterojunction bipolar transistor includes forming a base layer by patterning a p + type InGaAs layer on the collector layer on the second region, and forming an emitter layer by patterning an n-type InP layer on the base layer. And an n + type InGaAs layer formed on the emitter layer to form an emitter ohmic layer.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, an optical receiver integrated with a photodetector and a heterojunction bipolar transistor has a lens for condensing an optical signal. By the lens, the external quantum efficiency of the optical receiver can be improved. In addition, the amplifying layer and the absorbing layer of the photodetector can be separated, thereby enabling the propagation of the photocurrent, and reducing the leakage current. By transmitting the photocurrent generated from the photodetector to the base electrode, the photoreceiver may have a high amplification characteristic.
On the other hand, according to the embodiment of the present invention, since the photodetector and the heterojunction bipolar transistor of the optical receiver are formed at the same time, the manufacturing process can be simplified.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the technical idea of the present invention. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described herein and may be embodied in other forms. Rather, the embodiments disclosed herein are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art.
Although the terms first, second, and so forth in the embodiments of the present invention have been described in order to describe each constituent element, each constituent element should not be limited by such terms. These terms are only used to distinguish certain components from other components.
In the drawings, each component may be exaggerated for clarity. The same reference numerals denote the same elements throughout the specification.
Meanwhile, for the sake of simplicity, some embodiments to which the technical spirit of the present invention may be applied are described as examples, and descriptions of various modified embodiments will be omitted. However, one of ordinary skill in the art may apply the inventive concept of the present invention to various cases based on the above description and the embodiments to be illustrated.
1 is a view illustrating a photodetector integrated with a photodetector and a heterojunction bipolar transistor according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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2A to 2D are views for explaining a method of forming an optical receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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1 is a view illustrating a photodetector integrated with a photodetector and a heterojunction bipolar transistor according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2A to 2D are views for explaining a method of forming an optical receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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