Effect of surface defects on InGaAs/InAlAs Quantum Cascade mesa current–voltage characteristics
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We investigate the impact of surface defect density on the transport properties of molecular beam epitaxy grown InGaAs/AlInAs Quantum Cascade (QC) structures. We examine six parameters of the current–voltage (IV) characteristics of the QC mesas: turn-on voltage, turn-on current density, turn-on differential resistance, differential resistance, cut-off voltage, and cut-off current density. The analyses all six parameters are only weakly correlated to surface defects. The turn-on voltage and current density share a negative correlation with defects (4 0.26) in both pulsed mode and CW operation at 80 K, and a positive correlation in pulsed mode at 300 K (o0.21). The cut-off voltage has a positive correlation in all three modes of operation (o0.51). The cut-off current density has a positive correlation (o0.39) in both pulsed mode (80 K and 300 K) and a negligible correlation in CW operation (80 K). We observed insignificant correlation coefficients (o0.1) for differential resistances at 80 K along with a weak negative correlation (4 0.29) in pulsed mode at 300 K. Our analysis demonstrates that shallow oval and a few deep oval defects have little influence on IV. & 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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