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Energy-sensitive GaSb/AlAsSb separate absorption and multiplication avalanche photodiodes for X-Ray and gamma-ray detection

Juang, Bor-Chau, Chen, Andrew, Ren, Dingkun, Liang, Baolai, Prout, David L., Chatziioannou, Arion F. and Huffaker, Diana L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5946-4481 2019. Energy-sensitive GaSb/AlAsSb separate absorption and multiplication avalanche photodiodes for X-Ray and gamma-ray detection. Advanced Optical Materials 7 (11) , 1900107. 10.1002/adom.201900107

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Abstract

Demonstrated are antimony‐based (Sb‐based) separate absorption and multiplication avalanche photodiodes (SAM‐APDs) for X‐ray and gamma‐ray detection, which are composed of GaSb absorbers and large bandgap AlAsSb multiplication regions in order to enhance the probability of stopping high‐energy photons while drastically suppressing the minority carrier diffusion. Well‐defined X‐ray and gamma‐ray photopeaks are observed under exposure to 241Am radioactive sources, demonstrating the desirable energy‐sensitive detector performance. Spectroscopic characterizations show a significant improvement of measured energy resolution due to reduced high‐peak electric field in the absorbers and suppressed nonradiative recombination on surfaces. Additionally, the GaSb/AlAsSb SAM‐APDs clearly exhibit energy response linearity up to 59.5 keV with a minimum full‐width half‐maximum of 1.283 keV. A further analysis of the spectroscopic measurement suggests that the device performance is intrinsically limited by the noise from the readout electronics rather than that from the photodiodes. This study provides a first understanding of Sb‐based energy‐sensitive SAM‐APDs and paves the way to achieving efficient detection of high‐energy photons for X‐ray and gamma‐ray spectroscopy.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Publisher: Wiley
ISSN: 2195-1071
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 4 April 2019
Date of Acceptance: 25 March 2019
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2023 19:44
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/121398

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