AIP Advances (Feb 2016)

Study of dual color infrared photodetection from n-GaSb/n-InAsSb heterostructures

  • Jinchao Tong,
  • Yiyang Xie,
  • Zhengji Xu,
  • Shupeng Qiu,
  • Peinan Ni,
  • Landobasa Y. M. Tobing,
  • Dao-Hua Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4942936
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 2
pp. 025120 – 025120-7

Abstract

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We report detailed investigation of n-GaSb/n-InAsSb heterostructure photodetectors for infrared photodetection at different temperatures and biases. Our results show that the heterostructure photodetectors are capable of dual color photodetections at a fixed forward bias with its highest responsivity occurred at room temperature; With the decrease of the forward bias, a turning point, at which the photocurrent changes its direction, exist and the corresponding voltage values increases with the decrease of temperature; At all reverse biases, the photocurrents flow in the same direction but the maximum current occurs at about 205 K. A new model is proposed, which can well explain all the observations.