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Quantum well infrared photodetector
A Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) is an infrared photodetector, which uses electronic intersubband transitions in quantum wells to absorb photons. The basic elements of a QWIP are quantum wells, which are separated by barriers. The quantum wells are designed to have one confined state inside the well and a first excited state which aligns with the top of the barrier. The wells are n-doped such that the ground state is filled with electrons. The barriers are wide enough to prevent quantum tunneling between the quantum wells. Typical QWIPs consists of 20 to 50 quantum wells.
When a bias voltage is applied to the QWIP, the entire conduction band is tilted. Without light the electrons in the quantum wells just sit in the ground state. When the QWIP is illuminated with light of the same or higher energy as the intersubband transition energy, an electron is excited.
Once the electron is in an excited state, it can escape into the continuum and be measured as photocurrent. To externally measure a photocurrent the electrons need to be extracted by applying an electric field to the quantum wells. The efficiency of this absorption and extraction process depends on several parameters.
Photocurrent
Assuming that the detector is illuminated with a photon flux \phi (number of photons per unit time), the photocurrent I_ is
I_=e\phi\eta g_
where e is the elementary charge, \eta is the absorption efficiency and g_ is the photoconductive gain.〔Schneider, Harald, and Hui Chun Liu. Quantum well infrared photodetectors. Springer, 2007.〕 \eta and g_ are the probabilities for a photon to add an electron to the photocurrent, also called quantum efficiency. \eta is the probability of a photon exciting an electron, and g_ depends on the electronic transport properties.
Photoconductive gain
The photoconductive gain g_ is the probability that an excited electron contributes to the photocurrent. Although it might be counterintuitive at first, it is possible that g_ becomes larger than one. Whenever an electron is excited and extracted as photocurrent, an extra electron is injected from the contact to balance the loss of electrons from the quantum well. In general the capture probability p_\leq1 and the injected electrons sometimes pass over the quantum well. Therefore, more electrons need to be injected to balance the for the extracted electrons and g_ can become larger than one.
The exact value of g_ is determined by the ratio of capture probability p_ and escape probability p_.
g_=\frac}
where N is the number of quantum wells. The number of quantum wells appears only in the denominator, as it increases the capture probability p_, but not the escape probability p_.
==References==


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