Millimeter-wave narrow-gap uncooled hot-carrier detectors for active imaging

Fedir F. Sizov; Vyacheslav V. Zabudsky; Aleksandr G. Golenkov; Anya Shevchik-Shekera

doi:10.1117/1.OE.52.3.033203

15 March 2013 Millimeter-wave narrow-gap uncooled hot-carrier detectors for active imaging

Fedir F. Sizov, Vyacheslav V. Zabudsky, Aleksandr G. Golenkov, Anya Shevchik-Shekera

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 52, Issue 3, 033203 (March 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.3.033203

Abstract

It is shown that electron heating by electromagnetic radiation in mercury-cadmium-telluride (MCT) layers can be used for designing of uncooled terahertz (THz)/sub-THz detectors with appropriate for active imaging characteristics (noise equivalent power ∼2.6×10 ⁻¹⁰W/Hz ^1/2 at ν∼140 GHz ) and these detectors can be manufactured within well established MCT technologies. This narrow-gap semiconductor can be considered as a material for THz/sub-THz detectors with possibility to be assembled into arrays. The characteristics of those detectors can be controlled and improved by selection of parameters of initial layers, substrate properties, and antenna configuration. For field effect transistor detectors, even for transistors with rather long channels (∼1 μm ), rather similar characteristics at ν∼140 GHz can also be obtained.

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Fedir F. Sizov, Vyacheslav V. Zabudsky, Aleksandr G. Golenkov, and Anya Shevchik-Shekera "Millimeter-wave narrow-gap uncooled hot-carrier detectors for active imaging," Optical Engineering 52(3), 033203 (15 March 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.3.033203

Published: 15 March 2013

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