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Heterostructure of a 2.5 THz Range Quantum-Cascade Detector

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The design of the heterostructure of a 2.5 THz range quantum-cascade detector is proposed and heterostructure is grown by molecular-beam epitaxy technique. To optimize the thicknesses of the layers of the heterostructure cascades, a numerical method for iterative solution of the Schrödinger–Poisson equation in the kp formalism was used. The grown heterostructure of the quantum-cascade detector showed a high structural perfection, confirmed by the small values of the average FWHM of the high-order satellite peaks on the X-ray diffraction rocking curves, which were (8.3 ± 0. 5)n. Analysis of dark-field images obtained by transmission electron microscopy showed that the total thickness of the layers in the cascade is 137.3 ± 6.9 nm, which corresponds to the calculated thickness of the layers in the cascade of the heterostructure of the quantum-cascade detector.

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The research was supported by a financial grant provided by the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 20-79-10285).

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  1. ITMO University, 197101, St. Petersburg, Russia

    A. V. Babichev, E. S. Kolodeznyi, A. G. Gladyshev, L. Ya. Karachinsky & I. I. Novikov

  2. St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University LETI, 197022, St. Petersburg, Russia

    D. V. Denisov

  3. Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N), UMR 9001 CNRS, Universite Paris-Saclay, 91120, Palaiseau, France

    A. Jollivet, P. Quach, M. Tchernycheva & F. H. Julien

  4. Ioffe Institute, 194021, St. Petersburg, Russia

    L. Ya. Karachinsky & V. N. Nevedomsky

  5. Connector Optics LLC, 194292, St. Petersburg, Russia

    L. Ya. Karachinsky, I. I. Novikov & A. Yu. Egorov

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Babichev, A.V., Kolodeznyi, E.S., Gladyshev, A.G. et al. Heterostructure of a 2.5 THz Range Quantum-Cascade Detector. Semiconductors 57, 440–444 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782623050019

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