A comparative study of  carrier lifetimes in ESWIR and MWIR materials: HgCdTe, InGaAs, InAsSb, and GeSn (Conference Presentation)

Enrico Bellotti; Hanqing Wen; Stefano Dominici; Andreu L. Glasmann

doi:10.1117/12.2265894

26 June 2017 A comparative study of carrier lifetimes in ESWIR and MWIR materials: HgCdTe, InGaAs, InAsSb, and GeSn (Conference Presentation)

Enrico Bellotti, Hanqing Wen, Stefano Dominici, Andreu L. Glasmann

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Proceedings Volume 10177, Infrared Technology and Applications XLIII; 101771F (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2265894
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2017, Anaheim, CA, United States

Abstract

HgCdTe has been the material of choice for MWIR, and LWIR infrared sensing due to its highly tunable band gap and favorable material properties. However, HgCdTe growth and processing for the ESWIR spectral region is less developed, so alternative materials are actively researched. It is important to compare the fundamental limitations of each material to determine which offers optimal device performance. In this article, we investigate the intrinsic recombination mechanisms of ESWIR materials—InGaAs, GeSn, and HgCdTe—with cutoff wavelength near 2.5μm, and MWIR with cutoff of 5μm. First, using an empirical pseudo-potential model, we calculate the full band structure of each alloy using the virtual crystal approximation, modified to include disorder effects and spin-orbit coupling. We then evaluate the Auger and radiative recombination rates using a Green’s function based model, applied to the full material band structure, yielding intrinsic carrier lifetimes for each given temperature, carrier injection, doping density, and cutoff wavelength. For example, we show that ESWIR HgCdTe has longer carrier lifetimes than InGaAs when strained or relaxed near room temperature, which is advantageous for high operating temperature photodetectors. We perform similar analyses for varying composition GeSn by comparing the calculated lifetimes with InGaAs and HgCdTe. Finally, we compare HgCdTe, InAsSb and GeSn with a cutoff in the MWIR spectral band.

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Enrico Bellotti, Hanqing Wen, Stefano Dominici, and Andreu L. Glasmann "A comparative study of carrier lifetimes in ESWIR and MWIR materials: HgCdTe, InGaAs, InAsSb, and GeSn (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10177, Infrared Technology and Applications XLIII, 101771F (26 June 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2265894

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Mercury cadmium telluride

Indium gallium arsenide

Mid-IR

Crystals

Doping

Infrared detection

Long wavelength infrared

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