Recent progress in InSb based quantum detectors in Israel

Abstract

InSb is a III–V binary semiconductor material with a bandgap wavelength of 5.4 μm at 77 K, well matched to the 3–5 μm MWIR atmospheric transmission window. When configured as a Focal Plane Array (FPA) detector, InSb photodiodes offer a large quantum efficiency, combined with excellent uniformity and high pixel operability. As such, InSb arrays exhibit good scalability and are an excellent choice for large format FPAs at a reasonable cost. The dark current is caused by Generation–Recombination (G–R) centres in the diode depletion region, and this leads to a typical operating temperature of ∼80 K in detectors with a planar implanted p–n junction. Over the last 15 years SCD has developed and manufactured a number of different 2-dimensional planar FPA formats, with pitches in the range of 15–30 μm.

In recent years a new epi-InSb technology has been developed at SCD, in which the G–R contribution to the dark current is reduced. This enables InSb detector operation at 95–100 K, with equivalent performance to standard InSb at 80 K. In addition, using a new patented XBnn device architecture in which the G–R current is totally suppressed, epitaxial InAsSb detectors have been developed with a bandgap wavelength of 4.2 μm, which can operate in the 150–170 K range.

In this short review of the past two decades, a number of key achievements in SCD’s InSb based detector development program are described. These include High Operating Temperature (HOT) epi-InSb FPAs, large format megapixel FPAs with high functionality using a digital Read Out Integrated Circuit (ROIC), and ultra low Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) FPAs based on the HOT XBnn architecture.

Keywords

Infrared detector

Focal plane array

InSb

Bariode

InAsSb

XBn

Source:ScienceDirect

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InAs/InSb nanowire heterostructures grown by chemical beam epitaxy

Abstract

We report the Au-assisted chemical beam epitaxy growth of defect-free zincblende InSb nanowires. The grown InSb segments are the upper sections of InAs/InSb heterostructures on InAs(111)B substrates. We show, through HRTEM analysis, that zincblende InSb can be grown without any crystal defects such as stacking faults or twinning planes. Strain-map analysis demonstrates that the InSb segment is nearly relaxed within a few nanometers from the interface. By post-growth studies we have found that the catalyst particle composition is AuIn2, and it can be varied to a AuIn alloy by cooling down the samples under TDMASb flux.

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RESEARCH NOTES Strain energy of (111) and ([111 over bar]) surfaces of InSb

Abstract

The strain energies per unit area of polished (0.1 μm powder) surfaces of InSb have been computed from the observed curvature of thin wafers polished on one side and etched on the other, as being of order 1 erg cm-2. These values are much larger than those computed by others from InSb wafers treated similarly on both sides and are ascribed only indirectly to surface bonding configurations.

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