• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 50, Issue 4, 20200231 (2021)
Yanfeng Wei, Quanzhi Sun, Juan Zhang, and Ruiyun Sun
Author Affiliations
  • Key Laboratory of Infrared Image Materials and Devices, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20200231 Cite this Article
    Yanfeng Wei, Quanzhi Sun, Juan Zhang, Ruiyun Sun. Photoelectric characteristics of HgCdTe with Au-doping[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(4): 20200231 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Au-doping is one of the approaches to improve the performance of HgCdTe photovoltaic infrared detectors. The minority-carrier lifetime and diffusion length in HgCdTe could be improved by replacing the intrinsic Hg-vacancy with the doped Au. The Au-doping HgCdTe films were grown by liquid phase epitaxy method. The concentration of the doped Au was about 8×1015/cm3. A Hg-rich annealing technique was applied to suppress the Hg vacancies in the film and the Hg-vacancy concentration of 1-2×1015/cm3 could be achieved. The acceptor energy level in the annealed material was 8-12 meV measured by the temperature dependent Hall method, which was related to the annealing condition. The IR Focal Plane Array(IRFPA) of 14 µm cut-off wavelength was fabricated using the combination of Au-doping material and Ion-implanting technique. The results show that the replacement of Hg-vacancy with Au will greatly increase the responsivity of the detector and the inner quantum efficiency of the detector could exceed 95%.
    Yanfeng Wei, Quanzhi Sun, Juan Zhang, Ruiyun Sun. Photoelectric characteristics of HgCdTe with Au-doping[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(4): 20200231
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