Different approximations of carrier statistics in middle-wavelength infrared HgCdTe photovoltaic devices with nonparabolic band

Jun Wang; Xiaoshuang Chen; Weida Hu; Lin Wang; Yongguo Chen; Wei Lu; Faqiang Xu

doi:10.1117/1.3627213

1 September 2011 Different approximations of carrier statistics in middle-wavelength infrared HgCdTe photovoltaic devices with nonparabolic band

Jun Wang, Xiaoshuang Chen, Weida Hu, Lin Wang, Yongguo Chen, Wei Lu, Faqiang Xu

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 50, Issue 9, 094006 (September 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3627213

Abstract

The optical bandgap and photoresponse characteristics of middle-wavelength infrared (MWIR) mercury-cadmium-telluride (HgCdTe) photodiodes have been performed based on a self-consistent solution of the Poisson's equation, the electron/hole continuity equations, and three-generation-recombination processes as Auger, Shockley-Read-Hall and optical generation recombination. Three different carrier-density approximations: (i) parabolic conduction-band approximation, (ii) Bebb's nonparabolic expression, and (iii) Harman's nonparabolic approximation, are proposed to calculate the optical bandgap and photoresponse of MWIR HgCdTe photovoltaic devices by considering the carrier degeneracy and the nonparabolic conduction band. It is found that omitting nonparabolic effect can lead to an enormous deviation in the simulation result, especially for heavily doped HgCdTe devices. On the basis of the calculated results of photoresponse, the parabolic conduction-band and Harman's nonparabolic approximations can lead to the response peak shift to short and long wavelengths, respectively.

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Jun Wang, Xiaoshuang Chen, Weida Hu, Lin Wang, Yongguo Chen, Wei Lu, and Faqiang Xu "Different approximations of carrier statistics in middle-wavelength infrared HgCdTe photovoltaic devices with nonparabolic band," Optical Engineering 50(9), 094006 (1 September 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3627213

Published: 1 September 2011

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Mercury cadmium telluride

Statistical modeling

Mid-IR

Photovoltaics

Infrared radiation

Data modeling

Doping

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