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Article Dans Une Revue Nanoscale Année : 2022

Photoconductive focal plane array based on HgTe quantum dots for fast and costeffective short-wave infrared imaging

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HgTe nanocrystals, thanks to quantum confinement, present a broadly tunable band gap all over the infrared spectral range. In addition, significant efforts have been dedicated to the design of infrared sensors with an absorbing layer made of nanocrystals. However, most efforts have been focused on single pixel sensors. Nanocrystals offer an appealing alternative to epitaxially grown semiconductors for infrared imaging by reducing the material growth cost and easing the coupling to the readout circuit. Here we propose a strategy to design an infrared focal plane array from a single fabrication step. The focal plane array (FPA) relies on a specifically designed readout circuit enabling in plane electric field application and operation in photoconductive mode. We demonstrate a VGA format focal plane array with a 15 µm pixel pitch presenting an external quantum efficiency of 4-5% (15 % internal quantum efficiency) for a cutoff around 1.8 µm and operation using Peltier cooling only. The FPA is compatible with 200 fps imaging full frame and imaging up to 340 fps is demonstrated by driving a reduced area of the FPA. In the last part of the paper, we discuss the cost of such sensors and show that the latter is only driven by labor costs while we estimate the cost of the NC film to be in the 10-20 € range.
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hal-03694583 , version 1 (13-06-2022)

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Charlie Gréboval, David Darson, Victor Parahyba, Rodolphe Alchaar, Claire Abadie, et al.. Photoconductive focal plane array based on HgTe quantum dots for fast and costeffective short-wave infrared imaging. Nanoscale, In press, ⟨10.1039/D2NR01313D⟩. ⟨hal-03694583⟩
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