Conditions for a carrier multiplication in amorphous-selenium based photodetector
- 18 February 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 102 (7), 073506
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4793487
Abstract
Amorphous selenium is a promising candidate for high sensitivity photodetector due to its unique carrier multiplication phenomenon. More than 10 carriers can be generated per incident photon, which leads to high photo-conversion efficiency of 1000% that allows real-time imaging in dark ambient. However, application of this effect has been limited to specific devices due to the lack in material characterization. In this article, mechanism of carrier multiplication has been clarified using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. A prototype photodetector achieved photo conversion efficiency of 4000%, which explains the signal enhancement mechanism in a-Se based photodetector.Keywords
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