High-sensitivity β-Ga_2O_3 solar-blind photodetector on high-temperature pretreated c-plane sapphire substrate
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Photonics LaboratoryDate
2017-09-20Online Publication Date
2017-09-20Print Publication Date
2017-10-01Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625891
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Recently, monoclinic Ga2O3 (beta-Ga2O3) photodetectors (PDs) have been extensively studied for various commercial and military applications due to the merits of intrinsic solar rejection, high gain, and great compactness. In this work, c-plane sapphire substrates were annealed under different temperatures in a vacuum furnace prior to the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) of beta-Ga2O3 thin film, which yielded a smoother surface and even a terraceand- step-like morphology on the substrate, resulting in improved crystallinity of the epitaxial film. Accordingly, both the dark and photo currents of beta-Ga2O3 metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) PDs were increased by the enhanced carrier mobility (mu) of the more crystalline film. However, the substrate-annealing temperature must be sufficiently high to offset the rise of the dark current and thus achieve a remarkable improvement in the photodetection properties. As a result, the PD fabricated on the 1050 degrees C-annealed substrate exhibited extremely high sensitivity, for example, high responsivity (R) of 54.9 A/ W and large specific detectivity (D*) of 3.71 x 10(14) Jones. Both parameters were increased by one order of magnitude because of the combined effects of the dramatic increase in mu and the effective reduction in defect-related recombination centers. Nevertheless, the latter also prolonged the recovery time of the PD. These findings suggest another way to develop beta-Ga2O3 PD with extremely high sensitivity. (C) 2017 Optical Society of AmericaCitation
Qian L-X, Zhang H-F, Lai PT, Wu Z-H, Liu X-Z (2017) High-sensitivity β-Ga_2O_3 solar-blind photodetector on high-temperature pretreated c-plane sapphire substrate. Optical Materials Express 7: 3643. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OME.7.003643.Sponsors
National Natural Science Foundation of China (61504022).Publisher
The Optical SocietyJournal
Optical Materials ExpressAdditional Links
https://www.osapublishing.org/ome/abstract.cfm?uri=ome-7-10-3643ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1364/OME.7.003643