Two-colour In<sub>0.5</sub>Ga<sub>0.5</sub>As quantum dot infrared photodetectors on silicon

Daqian Guo, Qi Jiang, Mingchu Tang, Siming Chen, Yuriy I. Mazur, Yurii Maidaniuk, Mourad Benamara, M. P. Semtsiv, W. T. Masselink, Gregory J. Salamo,

Semiconductor Science and Technology · 2018 · 23 citations · 23 references

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An InGaAs quantum dot (QD) photodetector is directly grown on a silicon substrate. GaAs-on-Si virtual substrates with a defect density in the order of 106 cm−2 are fabricated by using strained-layer superlattice as dislocation filters. As a result of the high quality virtual substrate, fabrication of QD layer with good structural properties has been achieved, as evidenced by transmission electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction measurements. The InGaAs QD infrared photodetector is then fabricated on the GaAs-on-Si wafer substrate. Dual-band photoresponse is observed at 80 K with two response peaks around 6 and 15 μm.

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