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About: Responsivity is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 9918 publications have been published within this topic receiving 186118 citations.


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TL;DR: In this article, design, modeling, and optimization principles for GaAs∕AlGaAs heterojunction interfacial workfunction internal photoemission (HEIWIP) infrared detectors for a broad spectral region are presented.
Abstract: Design, modeling, and optimization principles for GaAs∕AlGaAs heterojunction interfacial workfunction internal photoemission (HEIWIP) infrared detectors for a broad spectral region are presented. Both n-type and p-type detectors with a single emitter or multiemitters, grown on doped and undoped substrates are considered. It is shown that the absorption, and therefore responsivity, can be increased by optimizing the device design. Both the position and the strength of the responsivity peaks can be tailored by varying device parameters such as doping and the thickness. By utilizing a resonant cavity architecture, the effect of a buffer layer on the response is discussed. Model results, which are in good agreement with the experimental results, predict an optimized design for a detector with a peak response of 9A∕W at 26μm with a zero response threshold wavelength λ0=100μm. For a λ0=15μm HEIWIP detector, background limited performance temperature (BLIP temperature), for 180° field of view (FOV) is expected a...

62 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, photovoltaic quantum-dot infrared detectors fabricated from (In, Ga)As/GaAs heterostructures were demonstrated and achieved a peak detectivity of 2×108 cm 1/2/W with a responsivity of 1 mA/W at a wavelength of 13 μm.
Abstract: We demonstrate the operation of photovoltaic quantum-dot infrared detectors fabricated from (In, Ga)As/GaAs heterostructures. These detectors are sensitive to normal incidence light. At zero bias, we obtain a low-temperature (78 K) peak detectivity of 2×108 cm Hz1/2/W, with a responsivity of 1 mA/W at a wavelength of 13 μm for one of the devices. The photovoltaic effect in our detectors is a result of the intrinsic inversion asymmetry of the band structure of self-formed quantum dots. A compensation voltage of 18 mV is measured.

62 citations

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TL;DR: Schottky photodiodes based on Au-ZnMgO/sapphire were demonstrated covering the spectral region from 3.35 to 3.48 eV, with UV/VIS rejection ratios up to ∼105 and responsivities as high as 185 A/W as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Schottky photodiodes based on Au-ZnMgO/sapphire are demonstrated covering the spectral region from 3.35 to 3.48 eV, with UV/VIS rejection ratios up to ∼105 and responsivities as high as 185 A/W. Both the rejection ratio and the responsivity are shown to be largely enhanced by the presence of an internal gain mechanism, by which the compensated films become highly conductive as a result of illumination. This causes a large increase in the tunnel current through the Schottky barrier, yielding internal gains that are a function of the incident photon flux.

62 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a new type of photoconductor with high responsivity and gain over a wide spectral range of DUV to NIR using a wide band gap amorphous gallium oxide (a-Ga2O3) thin film was reported.
Abstract: In this work, a new type of photoconductor with high responsivity and gain over a wide spectral range of DUV to NIR using a wide band gap amorphous gallium oxide (a-Ga2O3) thin film was reported for the first time. The responsivity (gain) at deep UV-250, UV-350, VIS-525 and NIR-850 nm is as high as 1099 (5438), 265 (936), 205 (483) and 122 A W−1 (178), respectively. More interestingly, we demonstrate that a novel “thermal relaxation” (TR) process (short-time heating) can effectively reduce the dark current and improve the response recovery time from hours to seconds without reducing the gain of the a-Ga2O3 detector. The mechanism related to oxygen vacancies and thermal energy and tail state excitation is proposed to explain our experimental phenomena. This result suggests that amorphous Ga2O3 films have potential applications in high-performance broadband photodetecting devices.

62 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a thermally stable metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) Schottky-type photodiode with high performance based on the InGaN film is demonstrated at high temperatures up to 523 K.
Abstract: A thermally stable metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) Schottky-type photodiode with high performance based on the InGaN film is demonstrated at high temperatures up to 523 K. The reverse leakage current remains at a low level (10−7−10−8 A), while the UV responsivity is as high as 5.6 A/W at −3 V under 523 K, without observing the persistent photoconductivity. The discrimination ratio between ultraviolet (378 nm) and visible light (600 nm) is maintained to be more than 105. The temperature-dependent current-voltage characteristics of the MIS diode were analyzed. The photocurrent gain at reverse biases was interpreted in term of thermionic-field emission (TFE) and field-emission tunneling mechanism from room-temperature to 463 K, while TFE becomes the dominant mechanism at high temperatures.

62 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023848
20221,568
2021795
2020718
2019740
2018653