We report on fabrication and characterization of infrared detectors made of a composite material—PbTe/CdTe multilayer (ML). The multilayer consists of 10 repetitions of 35 nm thick PbTe layers and 75 nm thick CdTe layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs (100) semi-insulating substrates. Simple technological methods were used to manufacture photoresistors from the structure containing the PbTe/CdTe composite. The front-side illuminated photodetectors show a cut-off wavelength of 3.57 μm and a peak current responsivity of 127 mA/W at a bias voltage of 10 V, a frequency of 730 Hz, and a temperature of 300 K. The specific detectivity of photoresistors at the peak wavelength of 2.9 μm equals 2.7 × 1010 cm·Hz1/2/W and 6.1 × 109 cm·Hz1/2/W for 77 and 300 K, respectively. Although the ML photoresistors were not optimized, neither antireflection coated nor lithographically defined, their detectivity, especially at room temperature, is highly comparable to that of photoconducting infrared detectors available in the market. Possible mechanisms causing the relatively high performance of PbTe/CdTe ML detectors have been discussed in detail. These are a decrease in the electron concentration in the conducting PbTe layers caused by capturing some mobile electrons by dangling bonds present at the PbTe/CdTe interfaces and the effective suppression of the Auger recombination in nanostructures made of narrow and wide bandgap semiconductors.
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17 August 2020
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August 18 2020
Room temperature infrared detectors made of PbTe/CdTe multilayer composite
S. Chusnutdinow
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S. Chusnutdinow
a)
1
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
, Al. Lotników 32/46, PL-02-668 Warszawa, Poland
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S. Schreyeck;
S. Schreyeck
2
Physikalisches Institut, Experimentelle Physik III, Universität Würzburg
, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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S. Kret
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S. Kret
1
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
, Al. Lotników 32/46, PL-02-668 Warszawa, Poland
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A. Kazakov
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A. Kazakov
3
International Research Center MagTop, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
, Al. Lotników 32/46, PL-02-668 Warszawa, Poland
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G. Karczewski
G. Karczewski
1
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
, Al. Lotników 32/46, PL-02-668 Warszawa, Poland
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S. Chusnutdinow
1,a)
S. Schreyeck
2
S. Kret
1
A. Kazakov
3
G. Karczewski
1
1
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
, Al. Lotników 32/46, PL-02-668 Warszawa, Poland
2
Physikalisches Institut, Experimentelle Physik III, Universität Würzburg
, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
3
International Research Center MagTop, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
, Al. Lotników 32/46, PL-02-668 Warszawa, Poland
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: [email protected]
Appl. Phys. Lett. 117, 072102 (2020)
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June 16 2020
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August 06 2020
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S. Chusnutdinow, S. Schreyeck, S. Kret, A. Kazakov, G. Karczewski; Room temperature infrared detectors made of PbTe/CdTe multilayer composite. Appl. Phys. Lett. 17 August 2020; 117 (7): 072102. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0018686
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