کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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748267 | 894750 | 2011 | 6 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
Trap assisted tunnelling via traps located at dislocation cores as well as mercury vacancies are considered as the mechanisms of enhanced thermal generation of charge carriers in reverse-biased MWIR HgCdTe photodiodes operating with Peltier cooling. Field-induced reduction of trap activation energies increases thermal generation and creates conditions for large tunnelling currents. The model for LWIR devices published previously in Ref. [20], also explain experimental current–voltage characteristics of the MWIR photodiodes assuming great misfit dislocation density at graded gap interfaces between absorber and contact regions.
► I–V characteristics of uncooled photodetectors are investigated.
► Trap assisted tunnelling is considered as the mechanisms enhanced thermal generation.
► Traps are located at dislocation cores and mercury vacancies.
► Misfit dislocations are occurred at graded gap interfaces of HgCdTe heterostructures.
Journal: Solid-State Electronics - Volume 63, Issue 1, September 2011, Pages 8–13