Resonant Tunneling Diode High Sensitivity Detector with Low Dark Current

Abstract

A resonant tunneling diode based high-sensitivity detector with low dark current comprises a substrate, an emitting electrode contact layer, an emitting region, an isolating layer, a double-potential-barrier structure, an absorption layer, a collector region, an upper electrode and a lower electrode, wherein the emitting electrode contact layer is manufactured on the substrate; the emitting region is manufactured on the emitting electrode contact layer, and a table board is formed on the other side of the emitting electrode contact layer; the isolating layer is manufactured on the emitting region; the double-potential-barrier structure is manufactured on the isolating layer; the absorption layer is manufactured on the double-potential-barrier structure; the collector region is manufactured on the absorption layer; the upper electrode is manufactured on the collector region; the lower electrode is manufactured on the table board on the other side of the emitting electrode contact layer. According to the resonant tunneling diode based high-sensitivity detector with the low dark current, the dark current can be further reduced; with the adoption of npin type doping, the low dark current can be obtained by the resonant tunneling diode based near-infrared detector.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a near-infrared detector, in particular to a resonant tunneling diode high-sensitivity detector with low dark current and working at room temperature based on the resonant tunneling effect. Background technique [0002] Resonant tunneling diodes are one of the outstanding representatives of nanoelectronic devices. When nanoelectronic devices are coming, resonant tunneling diodes with the advantages of high frequency, low voltage, negative resistance, and multiple functions with a small number of devices will surely be obtained. More attention and development. Resonant tunneling diode, as the first nanoelectronic device intensively studied, has developed earlier, faster, more mature, and has more application prospects than other nanoelectronic devices. Now it is mainly used in detectors, oscillators, memories And photoelectric switches, etc., is an important symbol of the development of quantum coupling devices and their circui...

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Problems solved by technology

In the nin-type doped structure, because of its low potential barrier and the closeness between the Fermi level and the ground state energy level of the potential well, there are many carriers passing through the double barrier single potential well structure, and the current density is very large, which means The tunneling current and noise current are very large, and the dark current output by the device will be very large.

When we want to perform photoelectric detection, excessive dark current may interfere with the detection signal extraction

When electronic devices exist in an array, there may be as many as thousands or even tens of thousands of unit devices on a monolithic array. If the output dark current of a unit device is large, the output dark current of the entire array will be extremely large, which is bound to It will make it difficult to extract data, which is obviously not what we want to see

This also greatly limits the application of resonant tunneling diode detectors

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