Accession Number:

ADA459962

Title:

Voltage-Controlled Tunable GaAs/AlGaAs Multistack Quantum Well Infrared Detector

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

CALIFORNIA INST OF TECH PASADENA

Personal Author(s):

• Grave, I.
• Shakouri, A.
• Kuze, N.
• Yariv, A.

Report Date:

1992-05-11

Pagination or Media Count:

4.0

Abstract:

We describe a new type of intersubband GaAsAlGaAs infrared detector consisting of three stacks of quantum wells the quantum wells in a given stack-are identical, but are different from stack to stack. Each stack is designed to yield an absorption and a photoresponse at a different peak wavelength. The resulting device is an infrared detector which can operate in a number of modes. Among the features of this device are a wide-band detection domain, a tunable response and excellent responsivities and noise figures. The tunable operation includes a sharp peak-switching response which follows the formation, expansion, and readjustment of electric field domains within the multiquantum well region.

Descriptors:

• *INFRARED DETECTORS
• REPRINTS
• QUANTUM WELLS
• STACKING
• VOLTAGE REGULATION
• GALLIUM ARSENIDES
• ELECTRIC FIELDS

Subject Categories:

• Infrared Detection and Detectors

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE