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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015) Année : 2009

Modeling of dark current in midinfrared quantum well infrared photodetectors

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We present a model for the description of dark IV curves in midinfrared quantum well infrared photodetectors at low temperatures, in a regime where dark current is dominated by interwell tunneling. The model separates the IV curve into a low-field and a high-field region allowing us to identify the effects ascribed to miniband transport and carrier localization, respectively. At low fields the system is thought as a superlattice and described by means of a high-density correction of the Esaki-Tsu model. This approach allows us to simulate current saturation phenomena that occur at low temperatures at intermediate fields. On the other hand, high-field transport effects are described in the localized Wannier-Stark basis in order to account for tunneling and field-assisted thermionic emission effects. We then compare simulations with our measurements of the IV curves of mid-IR quantum well infrared photodetectors finding good quantitative agreement between theory and experiment.

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hal-01438579 , version 1 (23-01-2017)

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Fabrizio Castellano, Fausto Rossi, Jerome Faist, Emmanuel Lhuillier, Vincent Berger. Modeling of dark current in midinfrared quantum well infrared photodetectors. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2009, 79 (20), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.79.205304⟩. ⟨hal-01438579⟩
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