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H01L 31/101 (2006.01) G01J 1/16 (2006.01) H01L 31/0304 (2006.01) H01L 31/108 (2006.01)
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CA 2127596
A quantum well intersubband infrared (IR) photodetector has a spectral response tunable by an external voltage. The photodetector consists of multiple doped quantum wells with different well widths and barrier heights. The preferred embodiment is made by repeating the whole structure of the active region of a multiple quantum well intersubband IR photodetector. Differences between repeats or groups of well widths and barrier heights result in differences in the spectral IR response of the different repeats. The device resistance of a given group is designed to be very different from those for all the other groups. As a function of an applied voltage, the repeat with the highest resistance will be turned on to detect IR with the response peak at a wavelength .lambda.1. Subsequently, the next highest resistance repeat will turn on when increasing voltage with its response peaked at .lambda.2, and so on. Since .lambda.1, .lambda.2 are different from each other, a voltage tunable multicolour photodetector is realized.
Anderson J. Wayne
Liu Hui Chun
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