Re-examining the doping effect on the performance of quantum well infrared photodetectors

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-6

  Hao, Mingrui ^a   Zhang, Shuai ^a   Zhang, Yueheng ^a   Shen, Wenzhong ^a   Schneider, Harald ^a,b   Liu, Huichun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

background limited performance (BLIP) temperature; detectivity; doping density; Quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs)

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND LIMITED PERFORMANCE; BLIP TEMPERATURES; DETECTIVITY; DOPING CONCENTRATION; DOPING DENSITIES; GENERAL EXPRESSION; PEAK WAVELENGTH; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

FERMI LEVEL; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS;

QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 84889688638     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2013.2290535     Document Type: Article

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