Room-temperature oxygen sensitization in highly textured, nanocrystalline PbTe films: A mechanistic study
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Wang, Jianfei
Hu, Juejun
Becla, Piotr
Kimerling, Lionel C.
Agarwal, Anuradha Murthy
Date Issued
October 2011
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Journal of Applied Physics
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
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Wang, Jianfei, Juejun Hu, Piotr Becla, Anuradha M. Agarwal, and Lionel C. Kimerling. “Room-temperature oxygen sensitization in highly textured, nanocrystalline PbTe films: A mechanistic study.” Journal of Applied Physics 110, no. 8 (2011): 083719. © 2011 American Institute of Physics
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Abstract
In this paper, we report large mid-wave infrared photoconductivity in highly textured, nanocrystalline PbTe films thermally evaporated on Si at room temperature. Responsivity as high as 25 V/W is measured at the 3.5 μm wavelength. The large photoconductivity is attributed to the oxygen incorporation in the films by diffusion. Carrier concentration as low as 10[superscript 17] cm[superscript −3] is identified to be the consequence of Fermi level pinning induced by the diffused oxygen. The successful demonstration of IR-sensitive PbTe films without the need for high-temperature processing presents an important step toward monolithic integration of mid-wave PbTe infrared detectors on Si read-out integrated circuits (ROICs).
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MIT Materials Research Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Microphotonics Center
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