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A New Look at Calcium Digermanide CaGe
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: A High-Performing Semimetal Transparent Conducting Material for Ge Optoelectronics
Authors
S. A. Balagan
A. V. Gerasimenko
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V. M. Il'yaschenko
Aleksandr A. Kuchmizhak
D. V. Pavlov
Aleksandr V. Shevlyagin
N. V. Tarasenko
Publication date
13 November 2023
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arXiv
Abstract
Following a recently manifested guide of how to team up infrared transparency and high electrical conductivity within semimetal materials [C. Cui
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Prog. Mater. Sci. 2023, 136, 101112], we evaluate an applicability of the calcium digermanide (CaGe
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) thin film electrodes for the advanced Ge-based optical devices. Rigorous growth experiments were conducted to define the optimal annealing treatment and thickness of the Ca-Ge mixture for producing stable CaGe
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layers with high figure of merit (FOM) as transparent conducting material. Ab-initio electronic band structure calculations and optical modeling confirmed CaGe
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semimetal nature, which is responsible for a demonstrated high FOM. To test CaGe
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electrodes under actual conditions, a planar Ge photodetector (PD) with metal-semiconductor-metal structure was fabricated, where CaGe
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/Ge interface acts as Schottky barrier. The resulting Ge PD with semimetal electrodes outperformed commercially available Ge devices in terms of both photoresponse magnitude and operated spectral range. Moreover, by using femtosecond-laser projection lithography, a mesh CaGe
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electrode with the relative broadband transmittance of 90\% and sheet resistance of 20
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\Omega
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/sq. was demonstrated, which further enhanced Ge PD photoresponse. Thus, obtained results suggest that CaGe
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thin films have a great potential in numerous applications promoting the era of advanced Ge optoelectronics.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
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