Structure Design and Simulation of Solar Blind Ultraviolet Silicon/Diamond Heterojunction Photodiode
DENG Kangning, XIAO Qingquan*, CHEN Hao, WANG Aoshuang, WANG Jiangxiang
Institute of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials and Technology, College of Big Data and Information Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Abstract: Diamond is a semiconductor material with its low cost, nontoxic, and high chemical stability, which is also one of the ideal materials for ultra-violet photodiode. Its application in ultraviolet photodiode made it possible to replace the currently widely used ultraviolet photodiodes containing rare noble metal elements in the future. The device structure of solar blind ultraviolet silicon/diamond heterojunction photodiode was constructed by using Atlas module in Silvaco software. The effects of thickness and doping concentration on dark current, spectral response and transient response of photodiode were studied, and the dark current, reverse breakdown voltage and doping concentration of photodiode after preliminary optimization were obtained. The simulation results show that the silicon/diamond pin heterojunction photodiode has higher responsivity in the spectral range of 10—220 nm than that of the silicon/diamond pn heterojunction photodiode. When the peak wavelength is 220 nm, the maximum spectral response current of the photodiode is 1.7×10-11 A. The dark current of the pin heterojunction photodiode is approximately 5.6×10-15 A, which is smaller than that of the pn heterojunction photodiode. The work will lay a good foundation for the further structure optimization and the fabrication of high-performance silicon/diamond heterojunction photodiode.
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