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Improvement of the Deep UV Sensor Performance of a β -Ga₂O₃ Photodiode by Coupling of Two Planar Diodes
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Volume: 67, Issue: 11, Pages: 4947 - 4952
Swansea University Authors:
Nafiseh Badiei, Jonathan Evans, Lijie Li
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DOI (Published version): 10.1109/ted.2020.3022341
Abstract
β -Ga 2 O 3 is one of the promising semiconductor materials that has been widely used in power electronics and ultraviolet (UV) detectors due to its wide bandgap and high sensitivity to UV light. Specifically, for the UV detection application, it has been reported that the photocurrent was in the sc...
| Published in: | IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices |
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| ISSN: | 0018-9383 1557-9646 |
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2020
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55168 |
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β -Ga 2 O 3 is one of the promising semiconductor materials that has been widely used in power electronics and ultraviolet (UV) detectors due to its wide bandgap and high sensitivity to UV light. Specifically, for the UV detection application, it has been reported that the photocurrent was in the scale of microamps ( μA ), which normally requires sophisticated signal processing units. In this work, a novel approach based upon coupling of two Schottky diodes is reported, leads to a substantial increase in photocurrent (~186 times) when benchmarked against a conventional planar UV photodiode. The detectivity and responsivity of the new device have also been significantly increased; the rectification ratio of this device was measured to be 1.7×107 with ultralow dark current, when measured in the reverse bias. The results confirm that the approach of coupling two Schottky diodes has enormous potential for improving the optical performance of deep UV sensors. |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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11 |
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4947 |
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4952 |