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We present the results of numerical simulations and experimental data of band gap-engineered higher operating temperature mercury cadmium telluride barrier photodiodes working in a middle wavelength infrared radiation and a long wavelength infrared radiation range of an infrared radiation spectrum. Detailed numerical calculations of the detector performance were made with our own computer software taking into account Shockley Hall Read, Auger, band-to-band and trap-assisted tunneling and dislocation-related currents. We have also simulated a fluctuation phenomena by using our Langevin-like numerical method to analyze shot, diffusion, generation–recombination and 1/f noise.
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The work has been done under the financial support of the Polish National Science Centre as research Projects 2013/08/A/ST5/00773, 2013/08/M/ST7/00913 and PBS 653.
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Jóźwikowski, K., Piotrowski, J., Jóźwikowska, A. et al. The Numerical–Experimental Enhanced Analysis of HOT MCT Barrier Infrared Detectors. J. Electron. Mater. 46, 5471–5478 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-017-5513-x
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