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Photoconductive semiconductor switch is of significance in the fields of ultafast electronics, high-repetition rate and high-power pulse power system, and THz radiation. The mechanism of the nonlinear mode of the switch is an important area of study. In this work, stable nonlinear wave forms are obtained by a semi-insulating GaAs photoconductive semiconductor switch triggered by a 5-ns laser pulse with pulsed energy of 1 mJ at a wavelength of 1064 nm under a bias of 2750 V. Based on two-photon absorption model, the photogenerated carrier concentration is calculated. The theory analysis and calculation result show that the photogenerated carrier can compensate for the lack of intrinsic carrier, and lead to the nucleation of photo-activated charge domain. According to transferred-electron effect principium, the electric field inside and outside the domain are calculated, indicating that the electric field within the domain can reach the electric field which is much larger than intrinsic breakdown electric field of GaAs material, and results in strong impact avalanche ionization in the bulk of the GaAs switch. According to the avalanche space charge domain, the typical experimental phenomena of nonlinear mode for GaAs switch are analyzed and calculated, the analysis and calculations are in excellent agreement with the experimental results. Based on drift-diffusion model and negative differential conductivity effect, the transient electric field in the bulk of the switch is simulated numerically under the optical triggering condition. The simulation results show that there are moving multiple charge domains with a peak electric filed as high as the intrinsic breakdown electric field of GaAs within the switch. This work provides the experimental evidence and theoretical support for studying the generation mechanism of the nonlinear photoconductive semiconductor switch and the improvement of the photo-activated charge domain theory.
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Keywords:
- GaAs photoconductive semiconductor switches /
- nonlinear mode /
- two-photon absorption /
- photoactivated avalanche charge domain
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图 1 光电导开关的结构示意图
Figure 1. Diagram of the structure of the lateral switch.
图 2 光电导开关的测试电路
Figure 2. Test circuit of the switch.
图 3 偏置电压为500 V、触发光能为1 mJ时, 开关输出的50次重叠线性波形
Figure 3. Superposed linear waveform of fifty times output from the switch under the bias of 500 V and trigger optical pulse energy of 1 mJ.
图 4 偏置电压为2750 V, 触发光能为1 mJ时, 开关输出的50次重叠非线性波形, ΔU为偏置电压涨落引起的开关输出电压变化
Figure 4. Superposed nonlinear waveform of fifty times output from the switch under the bias of 2750 V and trigger optical pulse energy of 1 mJ, ΔU is the uncertainty limit of output voltage caused by bias voltage fluctuation.
图 5 电场呈三角形分布的空间电荷畴的示意图, Ep为畴内峰值电场, E0为畴外电场, Wd为畴宽, υs为载流子饱和漂移速度, x1和x2分别为电荷畴后端和前端位置坐标
Figure 5. Schematic of the space charge domains with a triangular shape electric field distribution, Ep is the peak electric field within the domain, E0 denotes the external electric field of the domain, and υs indicates the saturation drift velocity of the carriers, x1 and x2 represent the posterior and anterior position coordinates of the charge domain, respectively.
图 6 雪崩畴模型, 区域A为稳态雪崩畴区, 区域B为种子畴, 区域C为未电离区
Figure 6. Avalanche charge domain model, region A is steady state avalanche charge domain, region B is seed charge domain, region C is unionized area.
图 7 触发光功率为106 W, 光触发后360 ps时开关体内载流子浓度分布
Figure 7. Snapshots of the carriers concentration profile in the bulk of switch at 360 ps after the optical trigger and under a trigger optical power of 106 W.
图 8 器件触发后300, 360和420 ps时开关体内瞬变电场分布, d1和d2分别子畴和主畴的宽度, υ为电荷畴的漂移速度
Figure 8. Snapshots of the electric field profiles in the bulk of the switch at 300, 360 and 420 ps, respectively after the switch triggered by the light. Here, d1 and d2 denote the width of subsidiary charge domain and main charge domain, repectively, and υ is drift velocity of the charge domain.
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[1] Sun G X, Wang X, Ding W D, Yan J Q, Shen S K, and Nie S H 2023 IEEE Trans. Electron Dev. 70 765
Google Scholar
[2] Shi W, Tian L Q, Liu Z, Zhang L Q, Zhang Z Z, Zhou L J, Liu H W, Xie W P 2008 Appl. Phys. Lett. 92 043511
Google Scholar
[3] Han K H, Zhao W J, Zeng X, Chu E Y, Jiao Q J 2023 IEEE T. Power Electron. 38 3375
Google Scholar
[4] Loubriel G M, Zutavern F J, Baca A G, Hjalmarson H P, Plut T A, Helgeson W D, O’Malley M W, Ruebush M H, and Brown D J 1997 IEEE T. Plasma Sci. 25 124
Google Scholar
[5] Zhang D H, Xu Z, Cheng G, Liu Z, Gutierrez A R, Zang W, Norris T B, Zhong Z H 2022 Nat. Commun. 13 6404
Google Scholar
[6] Lu P K, Jiang X H, Zhao Y F, Turan D, Jarrahi M 2022 Appl. Phys. Lett. 120 261107
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[7] Woo K, Malakoutian M, Reeves B A, Chowdhury S 2022 Appl. Phys. Lett. 120 112104
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[8] 桂淮濛, 施卫 2019 物理学报 68 194206
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Gui H M, Shi W 2019 Acta Phys. Sin. 68 194206
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Wang Z Q and Shi W 2022 Acta Phys. Sin. 71 188704
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Shi W, Ma X R, Xue H 2010 Acta Phys. Sin. 59 5700
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Google Scholar
[17] Chao J H, Zhu W B, Chen C J, Lee Y G, Shang A N, Yin S Z, Hoffman R C 2018 Opt. Lett. 43 3929
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[18] Hu L, Su J C, Qiu R C, Fang X 2018 IEEE T. Electron Dev. 65 1308
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[22] Shi W, Tian L Q 2006 Appl. Phys. Lett. 89 202103
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[23] Bosch B G, Engelmann R W H 1975 Gunn-Effect Electrics (Pitman: Bath) p23
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Google Scholar
[25] Sze S M 1981 Physics of Semiconductor Devices (2nd Ed.) (New York: Wiley & Sons) p652
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[27] Garcia H, Kalyanaraman R 2007 Appl. Phys. Lett. 91 111114
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[29] Islam N E, Schamiloglu E, Fleddermann C B, Schoenberg J S H, Joshi R P 1999 J. Appl. Phys. 86 1754
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[30] Gunn J B 1967 IEEE Trans. Electron Devices ED-14 720
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Google Scholar
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