INGAASP INALAS SUPERLATTICE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE

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作者
KAGAWA, T
KAWAMURA, Y
IWAMURA, H
机构
[1] NTT Opto-Electronics Laboratories, Atsugi-shi
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10.1109/3.135291
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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This letter reports the fabrication of an InGaAsP-InAlAs superlattice avalanche photodiode using a gas source molecular beam epitaxy. A quarternal alloy of InGaAsP was used for the well layers in order to suppress the dark current due to the tunneling effect. With this structure, the valence band discontinuity almost vanishes and a gain bandwidth of 110 GHz was obtained.
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