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Development of a Long-Wave Infrared Band-Edge (LWIR BE) thermometry instrument
J Marquis1, K Roodenko2, P Pinsukanjana2
1Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA.
Abstract:
Accurate measurement of substrate temperature is one of the most critical process control parameters for molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth. Band-edge thermometry instruments have proven to be a valuable tool for process control during MBE growth of semiconductor films, providing as high as ±1 °C temperature resolution. The increasing use of InAs, GaSb, and AlSb iii-v materials necessitates a method for accurately measuring the temperature of their closely lattice-matched GaSb substrates. Current-technology instruments typically rely on InGaAs detector materials which have a maximum wavelength λ detection of ∼1.7 μm, but GaSb substrates have a band gap energy corresponding to λ > 2 μm. A band-edge thermometry instrument capable of λ > 2 μm has been developed using an InAs/InGaSb strained-layer superlattice detector sensitive to 2-9.5 μm long-wave IR wavelengths.
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