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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2013
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Shirane, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Igarashi, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An infrared detector includes a semiconductor substrate, a first contact layer formed on the semiconductor substrate, a light-absorbing layer formed on the first contact layer, a second contact layer formed on the light-absorbing layer, and a voltage source that applies a voltage between the first contact layer and the second contact layer. The light-absorbing layer includes at least a part in which a first intermediate layer, a quantum dot layer, a second intermediate layer, a current block layer, a third intermediate layer, and an electron-doped layer are stacked in this order. The energy at a bottom of a conduction band in the current block layer is larger than the energy at a bottom of a conduction band in the intermediate layer and the thickness of the first intermediate layer is larger than the thickness of the third intermediate layer.