Bandgap Engineered HgCdTe Nano-Crystal Based Hetero-Junction Infrared Sensor

Chatterjee, Abhijit and Rao, K S R K (2018) Bandgap Engineered HgCdTe Nano-Crystal Based Hetero-Junction Infrared Sensor. In: 3rd International Conference on Microwave and Photonics (ICMAP), FEB 09-11, 2018, Dhanbad, INDIA.

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Abstract

Advantage of remote-sensing in mid wave infrared (MWIR) spectral range (2 mu m-5 mu m) due to atmospheric transmission window. Dominant photon detectors in this range are single crystal InSb and HgCdTe, while cost of these detectors is very high and requires cooling around 80K to reduce dark current. Semiconductor Nano-Crystals or Quantum dots (QD) provide an alternative, combining the advantages of speed and Detectivity (D*) of quantum detectors with much reduced fabrication costs compared to single crystal epitaxial materials. This paper highlights synthesis of ternary alloy semiconductor Mercury Cadmium-Telluride (HgCdTe) colloidal quantum dots and realization of HgCdTe/Si hetero-junction infrared detector sensitive in MWIR range at room temperature. The photo-response of the nano-crystal HgCdTe/Si heterojunction devices is found to have significant response in MWIR region at room temperature.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Publisher:	IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belong to IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	17 Jul 2018 15:55
Last Modified:	17 Jul 2018 15:55
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/60213

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