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Photoconductive THz Detector Based on New Functional Layers in Multi-Layer Heterostructures

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Characteristics of photoconductive antennas (PCAs) based on InGaAs/InAs/InAlAs superlattice heterostructures exhibiting different types of elastic strain in the layers are compared experimentally. THz signals, noise characteristics, and signal-to-noise ratios of the PCA-detectors were compared by means of a laboratory pulsed time-domain THz spectrometer at different levels of average optical-probe power. A larger detection bandwidth in entire range of probe power is demonstrated experimentally for PCA-detectors based on superlattice heterostructures exhibiting both compressive and tensile strain compared to lattice-matched superlattice heterostructures. It can thus be stated that modification of properties of superlattice heterostructures by introducing strain in the crystal lattice represents a universal and relatively efficient method of improving characteristics of PCAs based on such heterostructures, which allows using these PCAs for development of THz spectroscopy and imaging systems.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to Profs. A. Abakumov and Ya. Shakhova for carrying out TEM measurements at the Advanced Imaging Core Facility of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.

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This research was supported by Russian Science Foundation, project no. 18-79-10195.

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  1. Mokerov Institute of Ultra-High Frequency Semiconductor Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 171105, Moscow, Russia

    A. E. Yachmenev, D. V. Lavrukhin, R. A. Khabibullin & D. S. Ponomarev

  2. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    A. E. Yachmenev, D. V. Lavrukhin, Yu. G. Goncharov, I. E. Spector, K. I. Zaytsev & D. S. Ponomarev

  3. Ioffe Institute, 194021, St. Petersburg, Russia

    V. A. Solov’ev & S. V. Ivanov

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Yachmenev, A.E., Lavrukhin, D.V., Khabibullin, R.A. et al. Photoconductive THz Detector Based on New Functional Layers in Multi-Layer Heterostructures. Opt. Spectrosc. 129, 851–856 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X21060187

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