Tat Lung Wesley Ooi, P. L. Cheang, A. You, Y. Chan
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Abstract
In this work, Monte Carlo model is developed to investigate the avalanche characteristics of GaN and Al0.45 Ga0.55 N avalanche photodiodes (APDs) using random ionization path lengths incorporating dead space effect. The simulation includes the impact ionization coefficients, multiplication gain and excess noise factor for electron- and hole-initiated multiplication with a range of thin multiplication widths. The impact ionization coefficient for GaN is higher than that of Al0.45 Ga0.55 N. For GaN, electron dominates the impact ionization at high electric field while hole dominate at low electric field whereas Al0.45 Ga0.55 N has hole dominate the impact ionization at higher field while electron dominate the lower field. In GaN APDs, electron-initiated multiplication is leading the multiplication gain at thinner multiplication widths while hole-initiated multiplication leads for longer widths. However for Al0.45 Ga0.55 N APDs, hole-initiated multiplication leads the multiplication gain for all multiplication widths simulated. The excess noise of electron-initiated multiplication in GaN APDs increases as multiplication widths increases while the excess noise decreases as the multiplication widths increases for hole-initiated multiplication. As for Al0.45 Ga0.55 N APDs, the excess noise for hole-initiated multiplication increases when multiplication width increases while the electron-initiated multiplication increases with the same gradient at all multiplication widths.
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