In this letter we report on a metal–semiconductor–metal photodetector based on thick relaxed Ge layers, epitaxially grown on silicon after insertion of a low-temperature-grown Ge buffer layer. The detector shows a good responsivity at normal incidence at both 1.3 and 1.55 μm, with a maximum responsivity of 0.24 A/W at 1.3 μm under a 1 V bias. A response time of about 2 ns has been measured.
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