Abstract
The effect of GaP strain compensation layers was investigated on ten-layer InGaAsGaAs quantum dot infrared photodetectors (QDIPs) grown by metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition. Compared with the normal QDIP structure, the insertion of GaP has led to a narrowed spectral linewidth and slightly improved detector performance. A more significant influence of GaP was observed after the structure was annealed at various temperatures. While a similar amount of wavelength tuning was obtained, the GaP QDIPs exhibited much less degradation in device characteristics with increasing annealing temperature.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 073515 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| Publication status | Published - 13 Aug 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |