中国物理B ›› 2015, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (3): 38502-038502.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/24/3/038502

• INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS AND RELATED AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY • 上一篇    下一篇

High performance silicon waveguide germanium photodetector

李冲a b, 薛春来a, 李亚明a, 李传波a, 成步文a, 王启明a   

  1. a State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China;
    b School of Electronic Information and Control Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
  • 收稿日期:2014-04-28 修回日期:2014-09-28 出版日期:2015-03-05 发布日期:2015-03-05

High performance silicon waveguide germanium photodetector

Li Chong (李冲)a b, Xue Chun-Lai (薛春来)a, Li Ya-Ming (李亚明)a, Li Chuan-Bo (李传波)a, Cheng Bu-Wen (成步文)a, Wang Qi-Ming (王启明)a   

  1. a State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China;
    b School of Electronic Information and Control Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
  • Received:2014-04-28 Revised:2014-09-28 Online:2015-03-05 Published:2015-03-05
  • Contact: Li Chong E-mail:chli@semi.ac.cn

摘要:

High-performance Ge-on-SOI p-i-n waveguide photodetectors with different sizes were fabricated. The performances, in terms of dark-current, photo current responsivity and 3-dB bandwidth, were well studied. A responsivity of 0.842 A/W at 1550 nm and dark current of 70 nA was measured from this detector at -1 V. The detector with a size of 4 μm× 10 μm demonstrated an optical band width of 19 GHz at -5 V for 1550 nm. Both the experimental results and the finite-difference time domain simulation show that, when the device size is above a certain threshold, the absorption is not sensitively dependent on such designing parameters as the width and length of the photodetector.

关键词: waveguide, optical telecommunication, germanium

Abstract:

High-performance Ge-on-SOI p-i-n waveguide photodetectors with different sizes were fabricated. The performances, in terms of dark-current, photo current responsivity and 3-dB bandwidth, were well studied. A responsivity of 0.842 A/W at 1550 nm and dark current of 70 nA was measured from this detector at -1 V. The detector with a size of 4 μm× 10 μm demonstrated an optical band width of 19 GHz at -5 V for 1550 nm. Both the experimental results and the finite-difference time domain simulation show that, when the device size is above a certain threshold, the absorption is not sensitively dependent on such designing parameters as the width and length of the photodetector.

Key words: waveguide, optical telecommunication, germanium

中图分类号:  (Photodetectors (including infrared and CCD detectors))

  • 85.60.Gz
95.55.Aq (Charge-coupled devices, image detectors, and IR detector arrays) 85.30.De (Semiconductor-device characterization, design, and modeling)