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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 107, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3327415
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- NSF [0838439]
- AFOSR [FA9550-09-1-0288]
- C-SPIN
- Oklahoma/Arkansas MRSEC [DMR-0520550]
- United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-AC04-94AL85000]
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [0838439] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Interband-cascade infrared photodetectors (ICIPs), composed of discrete superlattice absorbers, are demonstrated at temperatures up to 350 K with a cutoff wavelength near 5 mu m at 80 K to beyond 7 mu m above room temperature. The peak responsivity exceeds 200 mA/W, higher than the values reported from early interband cascade laser structures, suggesting a significantly enhanced quantum efficiency of the superlattice absorbers. A theoretical model, originally developed for quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs), is applied to ICIPs to analyze their device performance. The Johnson-limited and background-limited detectivities are extracted and indicate that background-limited performance temperatures for two ICIP structures are 126 and 105 K at 5 mu m. It is expected that optimized ICIPs will provide improved performance by combining the advantages of conventional photodiodes and the discrete nature of QWIPs and IC lasers. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3327415]
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