摘要:
An apparatus including a semiconductor substrate; an absorption layer coupled to the semiconductor substrate, the absorption layer including a photodiode region configured to absorb photons and to generate photo-carriers from the absorbed photons; one or more first switches controlled by a first control signal, the one or more first switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the first control signal; and one or more second switches controlled by a second control signal, the one or more second switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the second control signal, where the second control signal is different from the first control signal.
摘要:
Various particular embodiments include a method for forming a photodetector, including: forming a structure including a barrier layer disposed between a layer of doped silicon (Si) and a layer of germanium (Ge), the barrier layer including a crystallization window; and annealing the structure to convert, via the crystallization window, the Ge to a first composition of silicon germanium (SiGe) and the doped Si to a second composition of SiGe.
摘要:
An optical device for detecting a first chemical species and a second chemical species contained in a specimen, which includes: a first optical sensor, which may be optically coupled to an optical source through the specimen and is sensitive to radiation having a wavelength comprised in a first range of wavelengths; and a second optical sensor, which may be optically coupled to the optical source through the specimen and is sensitive to radiation having a wavelength comprised in a second range of wavelengths, different from the first range of wavelengths.
摘要:
Various particular embodiments include a method for forming a photodetector, including: forming a structure including a barrier layer disposed between a layer of doped silicon (Si) and a layer of germanium (Ge), the barrier layer including a crystallization window; and annealing the structure to convert, via the crystallization window, the Ge to a first composition of silicon germanium (SiGe) and the doped Si to a second composition of SiGe.
摘要:
Non-silicon based semiconductor devices are integrated into silicon fabrication processes by using aspect-ratio-trapping materials. Non-silicon light-sensing devices in a least a portion of a crystalline material can output electrons generated by light absorption therein. Exemplary light-sensing devices can have relatively large micron dimensions. As an exemplary application, complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor photodetectors are formed on a silicon substrate by incorporating an aspect-ratio-trapping technique.
摘要:
The present invention concerns a method for the detection of sunlight with a detector arrangement that delivers an output signal as a function of incident sunlight. In the method a detector arrangement is deployed with an SiC-semiconductor detector, which is only sensitive to the UV-component of the incident sunlight. By the deployment of such a detector arrangement a disturbance of the sunlight detection by artificial light sources is to a large extent avoided, so that a more reliable detection of the sunlight is enabled.
摘要:
System and method for processing a semiconductor device surface to reduce dark current and white pixel anomalies. An embodiment comprises a method applied to a semiconductor or photodiode device surface adjacent to a photosensitive region, and opposite a side having circuit structures for the device. A doped layer may optionally be created at a depth of less than about 10 nanometers below the surface of the substrate and may be doped with a boron concentration between about 1E13 and 1E16. An oxide may be created on the substrate using a temperature sufficient to reduce the surface roughness below a predetermined roughness threshold, and optionally at a temperature between about 300° C. and 500° C. and a thickness between about 1 nanometer and about 10 nanometers. A dielectric may then be created on the oxide, the dielectric having a refractive index greater than a predetermined refractive threshold, optionally at least about 2.0.
摘要:
Photodetecting device comprising: a semiconductor layer doped according to a first type of conductivity; two first semiconductor portions doped according to a second type of conductivity opposed to the first type of conductivity, distinct and separated from one another, and arranged in the semiconductor layer next to one another; a second semiconductor portion doped according to the first type of conductivity with a level of doping greater than that of the semiconductor layer and delimiting, with the semiconductor layer, the first portions by forming p-n junctions, wherein a part of the semiconductor layer separates the first portions such that the depletion zones between the first portions form a potential barrier of which the level is less than the potential of the second portion and of the semiconductor layer.
摘要:
Methods of forming photo detectors are provided. The method includes providing a semiconductor layer on a substrate, forming a trench in the semiconductor layer, forming a first single crystalline layer and a second single crystalline layer using a selective single crystalline growth process in the trench, and patterning the first and second single crystalline layers and the semiconductor layer to form a first single crystalline pattern, a second single crystalline pattern and an optical waveguide.
摘要:
A substrate section that is at least partially fabricated to include contact elements and materials. The substrate section includes doped regions that have a heavily doped N-type region and a heavily doped P-type region adjacent to one another. An exterior surface of the substrate has a topography that includes a light-transparent region in which light, from a light source, is able to reach a surface of the substrate. An application of light onto the light transparent region is sufficient to cause a voltage potential to form across a junction of the heavily doped regions. The substrate section may further comprise one or more electrical contacts, positioned on the substrate section to conduct current, resulting from the voltage potential created with application of light onto the light transparent region, to a circuit on the semiconductor substrate.