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Below 1% Reflectance for Black GaAs Surface Prepared by Facile Two-Step Wet Chemical Treatment: Hydrogen Peroxide and Water




TekijätJahanshah Rad, Zahra; Laaksonen, Johanna; Alitupa, Valtteri; Miettinen, Mikko; Iltanen, Kari; Lehtiö, Juha-Pekka; Granroth, Sari; Angervo, Ilari; Punkkinen, Marko; Punkkinen, Risto; Kuzmin, Mikhail; Mäkilä, Ermei; Laukkanen, Pekka; Paturi, Petriina; Kokko, Kalevi; Vuori, Sami; Lastusaari, Mika; Singh, Harishchandra; Huttula, Marko; Singh, Manvedra Narayan; Tukiainen, Antti; Tuorila, Heidi; Piirilä, Helmer; Viheriälä, Jukka; Guina, Mircea; Kozlova, Jekaterina; Rähn, Mihkel; Tamm, Aile

KustantajaWILEY

KustannuspaikkaHOBOKEN

Julkaisuvuosi2025

JournalAdvanced photonics research

Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimiADVANCED PHOTONICS RESEARCH

Lehden akronyymiADV PHOTON RES

Artikkelin numero2400200

Sivujen määrä9

eISSN2699-9293

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1002/adpr.202400200

Verkko-osoitehttps://doi.org/10.1002/adpr.202400200

Rinnakkaistallenteen osoitehttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/499204357


Tiivistelmä

To increase performance of many photonic devices (e.g., solar cell, light emitting diode (LED), photodetector), it is essential to decrease light reflection at device interfaces. Sustainable and scalable methods have been intensively developed for manufacturing nanostructured antireflection coatings at device surfaces to reduce the reflection-induced losses in them. In this work, a novel wet chemical method is demonstrated to prepare black nanostructured GaAs surfaces in scalable manner. This facile method includes two steps: immersion of GaAs in hot H2O2 solution followed by immersion in hot H2O both at around 80 °C. Microscopy, spectroscopy, and diffraction measurements reveal that the H2O2 immersion increases a surface porosity at GaAs while the hot-water treatment causes the formation of GaOOH nanocrystals. Reflectivity at the resulting black GaAs surface is decreased even below 1% in a broadband. Photoluminescence intensity measurements are used to study whether the presented top-to-down method increases harmful non-radiative recombination, as compared to the initial GaAs surface. Integration of the found black-GaAs method with device manufacturing is presented by means of planar metal–GaAs–metal photodetectors, of which external quantum efficiency increases due to the method.


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This work has been supported by the University of Turku Graduate School (UTUGS), the Academy of Finland (via the project #296469), Business Finland (via the project RONASEC), and Wihuri Foundation (Z.J.R.). The XPS and SEM/EDX experiments were carried out using resources provided by Materials Research infrastructure (MARI). Wihuri Foundation is also acknowledged for supporting UTU clean room facilities. Open access publishing facilitated by Turun yliopisto, as part of the Wiley - FinELib agreement.


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