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Optical-up converter capable of achieving conversion from near infrared light to visible light and preparation method thereof

A visible light and near-infrared technology, applied in the field of infrared imaging, can solve the problems of unsatisfactory infrared imaging, complex process, easy distortion, etc.

Inactive Publication Date: 2016-01-20
YUNNAN UNIV
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However, it mainly has the following two problems: (1) The interconnection of the detector and the readout circuit needs to grow tens of thousands of indium pillars and complete it through a flip-chip interconnection process, which greatly increases the process complexity and production cost, and there are also Reliability issues; (2) The electrical signal obtained by the infrared detector not only needs to be read out by the readout circuit to obtain a digital signal, but also the process of using a computer to process the digital signal to restore the image is very complicated and prone to distortion
Pure organic optical upconverter, although its growth cost is low and it can emit visible light itself, organic semiconductor materials have a wide bandgap width, and their infrared response wavelength does not exceed 1 μm at present, which does not meet the requirements of infrared imaging

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[0022]Si-based Ge quantum dots are used as crystalline Ge materials. The general steps for growing Si-based Ge quantum dots by ion beam sputtering are: (1) grow a 50nm Si buffer layer at a temperature of 700°C on an n-type heavily doped Si(001) substrate with a thickness of about 500 μm; ( 2) Deposit 2.3nm Ge again, and Ge atoms form Ge quantum dots according to the pattern of first layered and then island growth; (3) Re-grow a 30nm Si isolation layer; (4) Repeat steps (2) and (3) to obtain Multilayer Ge quantum dots with a period number of N layers; (5) Finally, a 200nm p-type Si layer is grown on the multilayer Ge quantum dots to form a p-i-n structure Ge quantum dot infrared detector as a whole. Among them, for the three-dimensional surface topography of single-layer Ge quantum dots grown on n-type Si substrates according to the above growth parameters, please refer to the attached Figure 5 (a).

[0023] A layer of 200nm thick SiO is directly grown on the p-i-n structure...

Embodiment 2

[0034] A Si-based Ge thin film is used as the crystalline Ge material. Among them, the Si(100) substrate is heavily doped with n-type, and its thickness is about 500 μm. The Si-based Ge film is obtained by using the magnetron sputtering technology and the relatively mature low-temperature-high-temperature two-step growth technology. The general growth steps are: (1) grow a 60nm low-temperature Ge layer on the Si substrate under the conditions of sputtering pressure of 1.5Pa, sputtering power of 50W, and growth temperature of 350°C; (2) working pressure of not Change, the sputtering power is 100W, and a high-temperature Ge layer of 1~2.5μm is grown at a temperature of 650°C. According to the above experimental growth parameters, the obtained two-dimensional surface topography of Si-based Ge film, please refer to the attached Figure 5 (b).

[0035] A layer of 200nm thick SiO was grown on Si-based Ge film 2 or SiN x Insulation. And use etching technology to etch through th...

Embodiment 3

[0046] The single crystal Ge substrate is directly used as the crystalline Ge material. P-type Ge materials are easier to form ohmic contacts with metals than n-type Ge materials, so the selected single crystal Ge substrate is p-type doped, and its two-dimensional surface topography, please refer to the attached Figure 5 (c).

[0047] A layer of 200nm thick SiO was grown on p-type Ge(001) substrate 2 or SiN x Insulation. And use photolithography or plasma etching technology to etch through the insulating layer, so that it forms a square window of millimeter size, the size can be 1×1mm, 2×2mm, 3×3mm and so on.

[0048] For the anode ohmic contact layer, grow 100nm-thick Al or 15nm-thick Ni on the back of the Ge substrate by magnetron sputtering at room temperature, and then perform rapid thermal annealing at 400°C for 1min to achieve better ohmic contact.

[0049] Please refer to the appendix for the vacuum-evaporated OLED structure Figure 4 , including a hole injection ...

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Abstract

The invention discloses an optical-up converter capable of achieving conversion from near infrared light to visible light and a preparation method thereof. The optical-up converter is characterized in that the optical-up converter is a Ge / OLED optical-up converter which is obtained in a way that an organic light emitting diode (OLED) is integrated on an infrared-sensitive crystal Ge material; the infrared-sensitive crystal Ge material can be a Si-based Ge quantum dot, a Si-based Ge thin film or a single-crystal Ge substrate; and the OLED thin film comprises an organic hole injection layer, an organic hole transmission layer, an organic light emitting layer, an organic electronic transmission layer and an organic injection layer. According to the invention, by taking advantages of the infrared adsorption characteristics of the crystal Ge material and the visible light emitting characteristics of the OLED, under the effects of the external bias voltage, conversion from near infrared light to visible light can be achieved; and the optical-up converter is compatible with a Si-based integration circuit, so cost and complexity of infrared imaging can be greatly reduced.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of infrared imaging, which is different from the traditional infrared focal plane imaging technology, and specifically relates to a Ge / OLED optical up-conversion device that directly evaporates an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) film on a crystal Ge material. Under the action, the conversion of near-infrared signals to visible light signals can be realized, which can be applied to image detection of objects at night. Background technique [0002] Infrared imaging technology has been widely used in medical, military, night vision, satellite and civilian fields, and has always been a hot spot in scientific research. At present, the traditional infrared focal plane imaging technology is the most mature infrared imaging technology. However, it mainly has the following two problems: (1) The interconnection of the detector and the readout circuit needs to grow tens of thousands of indium pillars and c...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H01L51/52H01L51/54H01L51/56
CPCH10K50/00H10K50/80H10K50/85H10K71/00
Inventor 杨宇邱峰李辉松王茺王荣飞杨杰张瑾
Owner YUNNAN UNIV