УДК: 621.382, 621.383.5

Optimizing the parameters of a system consisting of a photosensitive IR element based on multilayer structures with quantum wells and a silicon photoelectric multiplexer

Demiyanenko, M.A., Kozlov, A.I., Ovsyuk, V.N.

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Демьяненко М.А., Козлов А.И., Овсюк В.Н. Оптимизация параметров системы «инфракрасный фоточувствительный элемент на основе многослойных структур с квантовыми ямами — кремниевый мультиплексор фотосигналов» // Оптический журнал. 2017. Т. 84. № 9. С. 59–65.

Demiyanenko M.A., Kozlov A.I., Ovsyuk V.N. Optimizing the parameters of a system consisting of a photosensitive IR element based on multilayer structures with quantum wells and a silicon photoelectric multiplexer [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2017. V. 84. № 9. P. 59–65.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

M. A. Dem’yanenko, A. I. Kozlov, and V. N. Ovsyuk, "Optimizing the parameters of a system consisting of a photosensitive IR element based on multilayer structures with quantum wells and a silicon photoelectric multiplexer," Journal of Optical Technology. 84(9), 625-630 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.84.000625

Abstract:

This paper discusses the design and process principles involved in optimizing the noise-equivalent temperature difference of photodetectors based on multilayer structures with quantum wells in wide ranges of the structural and process limitations of silicon multiplexers, CMOS-technology design norms, and the parameters of photosensitive elements for the long-wavelength IR spectral region.

Keywords:

silicon multiplexer, integrated circuit for detection of photoelectric signals, multielement infrared photodetector, photodetector based on multilayer structures with quantum wells

Acknowledgements:

The authors express gratitude to Academician A. L. Aseev for useful discussions of the results presented in this article and to A. P. Savchenko for numerous discussions of the data presented on the parameters of QWMS-based PDs.

OCIS codes: 040.3060, 110.3080, 130.5990

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