Published May 25, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

ZnSe MSM photodetectors prepared on GaAs and ZnSe substrates

  • 1. Institute of Microelectronics and Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan (China)
  • 2. Institute of Microelectronics and Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan (China) and Institute of MEMS Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan (China)
  • 3. Department of Electronics Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, Tainan 710, Taiwan (China)
  • 4. Institute of MEMS Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan (China)
  • 5. Department of Electronic Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Touliu 640, Taiwan (China)

Description

Homoepitaxial and heteroepitaxial ZnSe metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) photodetectors were both fabricated and characterized. It was found that homoepitaxial ZnSe MSM photodetector could provide us smaller dark current and large photocurrent. With an incident wavelength of 448 nm, it was found that the maximum responsivities for the homoepitaxial and heteroepitaxial ZnSe photodetectors were 0.128 and 0.045 A/W, which corresponds to a quantum efficiency of 36 and 12%, respectively. Furthermore, it was found that we achieved the minimum noise equivalent power (NEP) of 7.6 x 10-13 W and the maximum normalized detectivity (D *) of 9.3 x 1011 cm Hz0.5 W-1 from our homoepitaxial ZnSe photodetector. In contrast, NEP and D * of the heteroepitaxial ZnSe photodetector were 2.9 x 10-12 W and 2.44 x 1011 cm Hz0.5 W-1, respectively

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.mseb.2005.03.002;
PII
S0921-5107(05)00173-X;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Materials Science and Engineering. B, Solid-State Materials for Advanced Technology
Journal Volume
119
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 202-205
ISSN
0921-5107
CODEN
MSBTEK

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