Abstract:
A photodetector and a method of manufacturing the photodetector are provided, in which variation in sensitivity is suppressed over the near-infrared region from the short wavelength side including 1.3 μm to the long wavelength side. The photodetector includes, on an InP substrate, an absorption layer of a type II multiple quantum well structure comprising a repeated structure of a GaAsSb layer and an InGaAs layer, and has sensitivity in the near-infrared region including wavelengths of 1.3 μm and 2.0 μm. The ratio of the sensitivity at the wavelength of 1.3 μm to the sensitivity at the wavelength of 2.0 μm is not smaller than 0.5 but not larger than 1.6.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a light receiving element array etc., having a high light-reception sensitivity in the near-infrared region, an optical sensor device, and a method for producing the light receiving element array. A light receiving element array 55 includes an n-type buffer layer 2 disposed on an InP substrate 1, an absorption layer 3 having a type-II MQW, a contact layer 5 disposed on the absorption layer, and a p-type region extending to the n-type buffer layer 2 through the absorption layer 3, wherein the p-type region formed by selective diffusion is separated from the p-type region of an adjacent light receiving element by a region that is not subjected to selective diffusion, and, in the n-type buffer layer, a p-n junction 15 is formed on a crossed face of a p-type carrier concentration of the p-type region and an n-type carrier concentration of the buffer layer.
Abstract:
A circumferential portion of an epitaxial wafer is removed to remove an anomalously grown elevated portion formed in a circumferential chamfer. An epitaxial layer in the circumferential portion is removed with a width q=t to 5t wherein t is the thickness of the epitaxial layer so that the surface of a substrate is exposed. Therefore, cracking of the epitaxial layer in processing steps can be prevented.
Abstract:
Provided are a semiconductor device and an optical sensor device, each having reduced dark current, and detectivity extended toward longer wavelengths in the near-infrared. Further, a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device 50 includes an absorption layer 3 of a type II (GaAsSb/InGaAs) MQW structure located on an InP substrate 1, and an InP contact layer 5 located on the MQW structure. In the MQW structure, a composition x (%) of GaAsSb is not smaller than 44%, a thickness z (nm) thereof is not smaller than 3 nm, and z≧−0.4x+24.6 is satisfied.
Abstract:
The invention offers a photodetector that has an N-containing InGaAs-based absorption layer having a sensitivity in the near-infrared region and that suppresses the dark current and a production method thereof. The photodetector is provided with an InP substrate 1, an N-containing InGaAs-based absorption layer 3 positioned above the InP substrate 1, a window layer 5 positioned above the N-containing InGaAs-based absorption layer 3, and an InGaAs buffer layer 4 positioned between the N-containing InGaAs-based absorption layer 3 and the window layer 5.
Abstract:
A light receiving device having small dark current and capable of sensing light in the wavelength range of 2.0 μm to 3.0 μm with high sensitivity is provided. The light receiving device has an InP substrate, and a light receiving layer formed by alternately stacking a larger layer formed of GaInNAsSbP mixed crystal having nitrogen content of at most 5% in 5 group, larger lattice constant than that of InP and thickness between hc and 11hc, the critical thickness hc being determined as hc=b(1−ν cos2α){log(hc/b)+1}/8πf(1+ν)cos λ and a smaller layer formed of GaInNAsSbP mixed crystal having nitrogen content of at most 5% in 5 group, smaller lattice constant than that of InP and thickness between hc and 11hc; absolute value of lattice mismatch of the larger layer and the smaller layer to the InP substrate is at least 0.5% and at most 5%; at least one of the layers has absorption edge wavelength of 2.0 μm to 3.0 μm; total thickness of respective layers is 2.0 μm to 4.0 μm; and thickness-weighted average lattice mismatch is set to be at most ±0.2%.
Abstract:
A photodetector having a mechanism of suppressing light crosstalk includes a plurality of photodiodes disposed on a common semiconductor substrate, each photodiode including an absorption layer epitaxially grown on the common semiconductor substrate and being provided with an epitaxial-side electrode. Each photodiode is provided with at least one of a ring-shaped or crescent-shaped epitaxial-side electrode, an incident-side-limited condensing part which condenses incident light that is directed to the corresponding photodiode only, and emission means which is disposed on a side opposite to a light-incident side of the absorption layer and which allows light entering from the light-incident side to be easily emitted out of the photodiode.
Abstract:
A rear-illuminated-type photodiode array has (a) a first-electroconductive-type semiconductor substrate, (b) a first-electroconductive-type electrode that is placed at the rear side of the semiconductor substrate and has openings arranged one- or two-dimensionally, (c) an antireflective coating provided at each of the openings of the first-electroconductive-type electrode, (d) a first-electroconductive-type absorption layer formed at the front-face side of the substrate, (e) a leakage-lightwave-absorbing layer that is provided on the absorption layer and has an absorption edge wavelength longer than that of the absorption layer, (f) a plurality of second-electroconductive-type regions that are formed so as to penetrate through the leakage-lightwave-absorbing layer from the top surface and extend into the absorption layer to a certain extent and are arranged one- or two-dimensionally at the positions coinciding with those of the antireflective coatings at the opposite side, and (g) a second-electroconductive-type electrode provided on the top surface of each of the second-electroconductive-type regions.
Abstract:
Provided is a method of heating a semiconductor substrate having a surface of a III-V compound semiconductor containing phosphorus as a group V constituent element. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing an alloy in a heating furnace, the alloy including tin, indium, and phosphorus as main constituents; and (b) raising a temperature of the article in an atmosphere containing vapor of phosphorus supplied from the alloy.