Development of 256 x 256 Element Impurity Band Conduction Infrared Detector Arrays for Astronomy

Author: Domingo, George
Published: Jun. 1997.
Physical Description: 1 electronic document

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This report describes the work performed on a one and a half year advance technology program to develop Impurity Band Conduction (IBC) detectors with very low dark current, high quantum efficiency, and with good repeatable processes. The program fabricated several epitaxial growths of Si:As detecting layers from 15 to 35 microns thick and analyzed the performance versus the thickness and the Arsenic concentration of these epitaxial layers. Some of the epitaxial runs did not yield because of excessive residual impurities. The thicker epitaxial layers and the ones with higher Arsenic concentration resulted in good detectors with low dark currents and good quantum efficiency. The program hybridized six detector die from the best detector wafers to a low noise, 256 x 256 readout array and delivered the hybrids to NASA Ames for a more detailed study of the performance of the detectors.

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Astronomy

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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.

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Document ID: 19970021681.
Accession ID: 97N22579.
NAS 1.26:204773.
DM-LK90-0015.
NASA-CR-204773.

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