CN1773732A - Gallium nitride-base infrared visable wavelength conversion detector - Google Patents

Gallium nitride-base infrared visable wavelength conversion detector Download PDF

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CN1773732A
CN1773732A CN 200510030062 CN200510030062A CN1773732A CN 1773732 A CN1773732 A CN 1773732A CN 200510030062 CN200510030062 CN 200510030062 CN 200510030062 A CN200510030062 A CN 200510030062A CN 1773732 A CN1773732 A CN 1773732A
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An infrared - visible wavelength converting detector with gallium nitride base is prepared by gallium nitride based material and series - couples multiple quantum well infrared detector as well as luminous diode on the same chip. It features that multiple quantum well infrared detector is used to convert infrared radiation signal to be infrared photoelectric signal and then luminous diode is used to infrared photoelectric signal to be light signal of visible waveband.

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Gallium nitrate based infrared-visable wavelength conversion detector
Technical field
The present invention relates to Infrared Detectors and light-emitting diode, specifically be meant by gallium nitride (GaN) sill is made Infrared Detectors and light-emitting diode series connection are coupling in the infrared-visable wavelength conversion detector on the chip piece.
Background technology
Traditional Infrared Detectors adopts focal plane array technology more.The signal of each photodetection unit is sent into outside silicon reading circuit in the array, and converts vision signal output to.Each photosensitive unit of this structural requirement forms a corresponding POI on the silicon reading circuit.The information translation that therefore will exactly focal plane array be listed is to the interlink node of correspondingly huge amount, this structure has proposed very high requirement to interconnected, refrigeration power consumption, the reading circuit of device, make that also the integrated system between this different materials is expensive and unreliable, thermal shock effect with non-kind of refrigeration cycle process especially is vulnerable to freeze.
In recent years, along with the maturation of GaN based quantum well material preparation process and led technology, the upconverter spare of the light-emitting diode of the Infrared Detectors of feasible series connection growing GaN/AlGaN quantum well sub-band transition and GaN base single quantum well band-to-band transition becomes possibility.This device can convert infrared light to human eye the most responsive green glow by effective coupling of GaN based quantum well Infrared Detectors and light-emitting diode, realizes the direct observation of human eye.It both had more ripe material preparation process and better material uniformity than arrowband material HgCdTe device; Interconnected and the big refrigeration of the reading circuit of having avoided general Infrared Detectors to face again refrigeration requirement problem; also save common mid and far infrared and be transformed into the required CCD imaging device of near-infrared based on the GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well; simplify system configuration, reduced cost.
Summary of the invention
Based on above-mentioned existing situation, the objective of the invention is to propose a kind of multiple quantum well infrared detector of GaN sill and the infrared-visable wavelength conversion detector of visible light emitting diode series coupled.
For achieving the above object, GaN base of the present invention is infrared-and visable wavelength conversion detector comprises substrate 1, be arranged in order growth lower electrode layer 2, multiple quantum well infrared detector 3, Al on substrate aGa 1-aN transition zone 4, single quantum well light-emitting diode 5, upper electrode layer 6.
Said multiple quantum well infrared detector 3 is by the alternating growth Al in 50 cycles bGa 1-bN barrier layer/GaN potential well layer is formed, and adds one deck Al at last bGa 1-bThe N barrier layer finishes.GaN potential well layer and Al bGa 1-bThe bed thickness of N barrier layer is relevant with the infrared wavelength that will survey with the value of b.
Said single quantum well light-emitting diode 5 is successively by In xGa 1-xN barrier layer, In yGa 1-yActive potential well layer of N and Al aGa 1-aThe N barrier layer is formed.The emission wavelength of light-emitting diode can be by regulating unadulterated In yGa 1-yY value in the N active layer, from 0.2 to 0.7, make it change emission wavelength from the blueness to the yellow.
The present invention adopts Al bGa 1-bN/GaN is as Infrared Detectors Multiple Quantum Well growth material, its reason is that it has bigger conduction band band rank, can be so that the absorbing wavelength of intersubband transitions has than large span (0.7 micron~14 microns), by regulating GaN quantum well thickness, the AlGaN barrier height, the energy that can make GaN quantum well energy interband is just corresponding to the infrared radiation photon energy that is detected, and first excited state is in the accurate bound state that resonates with potential barrier or is higher than in the continuous state of potential barrier simultaneously, promptly can be used for infrared acquisition.In the single quantum well green light LED, utilize active potential well layer In yGa 1-yThe energy gap of N with the In content change (1.9~3.5eV), suitably regulate component, can realize the most responsive green emission of interband human eye, can make the light-emitting diode of green light band.But so select both grown quantum trap infrared detectors of GaN sill, can prepare the light-emitting diode of green light band again, can fine realization be coupled integrated.
The groundwork process of device of the present invention is: when adding constant bias at these series connection device two ends, this bias voltage will act on multiple quantum well infrared detector (QWIP) device and green light LED (LED) device simultaneously.When infrared light entered QWIP by optical system, QWIP absorbed infrared radiation and causes that sub-band transition produces movably free electron.The part of these electronics is injected LED under electric field action, in active area and the hole-recombination of LED, send visible light.Because QWIP is the guide type device, when absorbing the infrared radiation of varying strength, the reduction of its resistance value is also different, so be added in the also corresponding difference of the voltage at LED two ends, causes the LED luminous intensity also different.So if the radiation of incident is inhomogeneous, the electronics of QWIP causes that the visible light intensity of output correspondingly is also inhomogeneous after injecting LED.Promptly under the situation of no obvious optics cross-talk, the spatial distribution of output green glow has repeated the distribution of photogenerated current among the QWIP, has also repeated the spatial distribution of input infrared radiation in turn.By the no photosensitive components and parts of this series connection, realized of the go up conversion of thermal infrared photon in brief, promptly realized infrared image is converted to the green light band image that eyes can directly be observed to visible light green glow photon.
Quantum trap infrared detector in this upconverter spare both can be the N type, also can be the P type, need only note corresponding the getting final product of institute's biasing and LED end.But because the transition selection rule, N type QWIP thereon etched diffraction grating so that the infrared light of vertical incidence is able to effective absorption.
Device of the present invention has following good effect and advantage:
1. compare to general mid and far infrared and be transformed into the needed CCD imaging device of near infrared upconverter spare, and device human eye of the present invention can directly be observed, and has simplified system configuration.
2. compare to traditional Infrared Detectors, the photosensitive unit that device of the present invention need not to separate has avoided the Si reading circuit, thereby does not relate to the circuit interconnects problem, avoid common focal plane device to need the problem of big refrigerating capacity, reduced technical difficulty and cost that device prepares.
3. device material therefor mature preparation process of the present invention, material homogeneity is good.
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Fig. 1 implements simplified schematic diagram for the 26S Proteasome Structure and Function of detector of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is being with and the physical process schematic diagram of multiple quantum well infrared detector-green light LED.
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Infrared-visable wavelength conversion detector with N type QWIP and green light LED series coupled is embodiment below, wherein the infrared absorption peak of N type QWIP is set near 2.9 microns, the peak wavelength of the EL spectrum of LED is described in further detail the specific embodiment of the present invention in conjunction with the accompanying drawings at 525nm:
Detector of the present invention is the typical technology that utilizes epitaxial growth of semiconductor material, and as molecular beam epitaxy technique, metal organic chemical vapor deposition technology etc. are at Al 2O 3Be arranged in order growth on the Sapphire Substrate 1:
n *-GaN lower electrode layer 2;
The thick Al of 10nm in 50 cycles of alternating growth 0.35Ga 0.65N barrier layer (51 layers) and the thick GaN potential well layer of 3.5nm (50 layers), wherein the doping content in the GaN quantum well is 8*10 17Cm -3, form the Infrared Detectors 3 of a Multiple Quantum Well thus;
The Al that 100nm is thick 0.1Ga 0.9N transition zone 4;
Then be the thick N type In of 50nm 0.05Ga 0.95N builds layer and the thick unadulterated In of 2nm 0.43Ga 0.57The P type Al of N active layer and 100nm 0.1Ga 0.9N builds layer, forms a single quantum well light-emitting diode 5;
Then be the P type GaN upper electrode layer 6 of 200nm, and etch grating layer 7 thereon, finish the preparation of infrared-visable wavelength conversion detector.
Present embodiment selects single quantum well LED to come from single quantum well than the LED of double-heterostructure higher luminous intensity and colorimetric purity to be arranged.

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  1. One kind gallium nitrate based infrared-visable wavelength conversion detector, comprise substrate (1), it is characterized in that:
    On substrate (1), be arranged in order growth lower electrode layer (2), multiple quantum well infrared detector (3), Al aGa 1-aN transition zone (4), single quantum well light-emitting diode (5), upper electrode layer (6);
    Said multiple quantum well infrared detector (3) is by the alternating growth Al in 50 cycles bGa 1-bN barrier layer/GaN potential well layer adds one deck Al at last bGa 1-bThe N barrier layer is formed; GaN potential well layer and Al bGa 1-bThe bed thickness of N barrier layer is relevant with the infrared wavelength that will survey with the value of b;
    Said single quantum well light-emitting diode (5) is successively by In xGa 1-xN barrier layer, In yGa 1-yActive potential well layer of N and Al aGa 1-aThe N barrier layer is formed, and the emission wavelength of light-emitting diode can be by regulating unadulterated In yGa 1-yY value in the N active layer, from 0.2 to 0.7, make it change emission wavelength from the blueness to the yellow.
  2. 2. according to a kind of gallium nitrate based infrared-visable wavelength conversion detector of claim 1, it is characterized in that: said multiple quantum well infrared detector both can be the N type, also can be the P type, if the N type then needs to go up etched diffraction grating layer (7) at upper electrode layer (6).
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