Uncooled photodetector at short-wavelength infrared using InAs nanowire photoabsorbers on InP with p-n heterojunctions

Ren, Dingkun, Meng, Xiao, Rong, Zixuan, Cao, Minh, Farrell, Alan C., Somasundaram, Siddharth, Azizur-Rahman, Khalifa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9797-0382, Williams, Benjamin S. and Huffaker, Diana L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5946-4481 2018. Uncooled photodetector at short-wavelength infrared using InAs nanowire photoabsorbers on InP with p-n heterojunctions. Nano Letters 18 (12) , pp. 7901-7908. 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b03775

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Abstract

In this work, we demonstrate an InAs nanowire photodetector at short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) composed of vertically oriented selective-area InAs nanowire photoabsorber arrays on InP substrates, forming InAs–InP heterojunctions. We measure a rectification ratio greater than 300 at room temperature, which indicates a desirable diode performance. The dark current density, normalized to the area of nanowire heterojunctions, is 130 mA/cm2 at a temperature of 300 K and a reverse bias of 0.5 V, making it comparable to the state-of-the-art bulk InAs p-i-n photodiodes. An analysis of the Arrhenius plot of the dark current at reverse bias yields an activation energy of 175 meV from 190 to 300 K, suggesting that the Shockley–Read–Hall (SRH) nonradiative current is the primary contributor to the dark current. By using three-dimensional electrical simulations, we determine that the SRH nonradiative current originates from the acceptor-like surface traps at the nanowire-passivation heterointerfaces. The spectral response at room temperature is also measured, with a clear photodetection signature observed at wavelengths up to 2.5 μm. This study provides an understanding of dark current for small band gap selective-area nanowires and paves the way to integrate these improved nanostructured photoabsorbers on large band gap substrates for high-performance photodetectors at SWIR.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Publisher:	American Chemical Society
ISSN:	1530-6984
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 December 2018
Date of Acceptance:	9 November 2018
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2024 19:42
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/117420

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