Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Dec 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991spie.1540..622d&link_type=abstract
Proc. SPIE Vol. 1540, p. 622-632, Infrared Technology XVII, Bjorn F. Andresen; Marija S. Scholl; Irving J. Spiro; Eds.
Computer Science
Performance
Scientific paper
A method is presented for the thermal noise reduction in a near room-temperature intrinsic IR photodetector. The method is based on suppression of the Auger generation-recombination processes using the Electro-Magnetic Carrier Depletion (EMCD) of a narrow gap semiconductor. The device is a lightly doped narrow gap semiconductor flake with a high backside surface recombination velocity, supplied with electrical contact and placed in a magnetic field. Due to action of the Lorentz force, most of the device depletes in charge carriers, resulting in suppression of the Auger generation and recombination processes. As a result, the I-V characteristic becomes nonlinear, exhibiting regions of high positive and negative resistance. The thermal noise can be dramatically reduced, leading to a substantial improvement of performance. The ultimate detectivity may be determined either by the background radiation or by the Shockley-Read generation, in dependence on the ratio of the background photon flux to the recombination center concentration. The near-BLIP performance is predicted for 10.6 micrometers (Hg,Cd)Te devices, prepared from high quality materials and operated at 225 - 250 K.
Djuric Zoran G.
Piotrowski Jozef
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