Status of the MBE technology at leti LIR for the manufacturing of HgCdTe focal plane arrays |
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Authors: | P Ferret J P Zanatta R Hamelin S Cremer A Million M Wolny G Destefanis |
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Affiliation: | (1) LETI (CEA), DOPT, CEA-Grenoble, 17 rue des martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France |
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Abstract: | This paper presents recent developments that have been made in Leti Infrared Laboratory in the field of molecular beam epitaxy
(MBE) growth and fabrication of medium wavelength and long wavelength infrared (MWIR and LWIR) HgCdTe devices. The techniques
that lead to growth temperature and flux control are presented. Run to run composition reproducibility is investigated on
runs of more than 15 consecutively grown layers. Etch pit density in the low 105 cm−2 and void density lower than 103 cm−2 are obtained routinely on CdZnTe substrates. The samples exhibit low n-type carrier concentration in the 1014 to 1015 cm−3 range and mobility in excess of 105 cm2/Vs at 77 K for epilayers with 9.5 μm cut-off wavelength. LWIR diodes, fabricated with an-on-p homojunction process present
dynamic resistance area products which reach values of 8 103 Ωcm2 for a biased voltage of −50 mV and a cutoff wavelength of 9.5 μm at 77 K. A 320 × 240 plane array with a 30 μm pitch operating
at 77 K in the MWIR range has been developed using HgCdTe and CdTe layers MBE grown on a Germanium substrate. Mean NEDT value
of 8.8 mK together with an operability of 99.94% is obtained. We fabricated MWIR two-color detectors by the superposition
of layers of HgCdTe with different compositions and a mixed MESA and planar technology. These detectors are spatially coherent
and can be independently addressed. Current voltage curves of 60 × 60 μm2 photodiodes have breakdown voltage exceeding 800 mV for each diode. The cutoff wavelength at 77 K is 3.1 μm for the MWIR-1
and 5 μm for the MWIR-2. |
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Keywords: | HgCdTe CdTe/Ge molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) focal plane arrays (FPAs) long wavelength infrared detectors (LWIR) medium wavelength infrared detectors (MWIR) multispectral detectors |
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