Abstract

The authors report on growth, material characterization, and device performance of infrared photodetectors based on type II InAs/GaSb superlattices using the complementary barrier infrared detector (CBIRD) design. In this paper, control steps for improvement of material quality in terms of surface, structural, and optical properties of infrared detectors grown at Jet Propulsion Laboratory are described. For a specific CBIRD studied, these quality control steps indicate high structural and optical quality of the grown material. Furthermore, single-element detector from the optimized growth conditions exhibit dark current density less than 1 × 10−5 A/cm2 at applied biases up to Vb = 0.36 V (T = 77 K), so this material can be utilized for focal plane arrays development.

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