Ultrafast Low-Temperature-Grown Epitaxial GaAs Photodetectors Transferred on Flexible Plastic Substrates
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Mikulics, M.[Institute of Thin Films and Interfaces (ISG1) and cni - Center of Nanoelectronic Systems for Information Technology, Research Centre Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany]
Adam, R.[Institute of Thin Films and Interfaces (ISG1) and cni - Center of Nanoelectronic Systems for Information Technology, Research Centre Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany]
Marso, Michel[Institute of Thin Films and Interfaces (ISG1) and cni - Center of Nanoelectronic Systems for Information Technology, Research Centre Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany]
Forster, A.[Institute of Thin Films and Interfaces (ISG1) and cni - Center of Nanoelectronic Systems for Information Technology, Research Centre Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany]
Kordos, P.[Institute of Thin Films and Interfaces (ISG1) and cni - Center of Nanoelectronic Systems for Information Technology, Research Centre Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany]
Luth, H.[Institute of Thin Films and Interfaces (ISG1) and cni - Center of Nanoelectronic Systems for Information Technology, Research Centre Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany]
Wu, S.[Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester,NY14627-0231 USA, and also with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA]
Zheng, X.[Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester,NY14627-0231 USA]
Sobolewski, R.[Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester,NY14627-0231 USA, and also with the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa PL-02668, Poland]
[en] We demonstrate low-temperature (LT)-grown GaAs photodetectors transferred on flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic substrates. The LT-GaAs layer was patterned into 20 20 m2 chips, which after placing on the PET substrates were integrated with coplanar strip transmission lines. The devices exhibit low dark currents ( 2 10 8 A), subpicosecond photoresponse time, and signal amplitudes up to 0.9 V at the bias voltage of 80 V and under laser beam excitation power of 8 mW at 810-nm wavelength. At the highest bias ( 80 V) level, an increase of the response time (up to 1.3 ps) was observed and attributed to the influence of heating effects due to low thermal conductivity of PET. Our LT-GaAs-on-PET photodetectors withstand hundredfold mechanical bending of the substrate and are intended for applications in hybrid optoelectronic circuits fabricated on noncrystalline substrates, in terahertz imaging, and in biology-related current-excitation tests.
[Institute of Thin Films and Interfaces (ISG1) and cni - Center of Nanoelectronic Systems for Information Technology, Research Centre Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany]
