Author:
Sizov F.F., ,Gumenjuk-Sichevska J.V.,Danilov S.N.,Tsybrii Z.F., , ,
Abstract
The paper reports the detection of strong polarization-dependent photo-responses in direct narrow-gap (Eg = 0.084 eV at T = 80 K) HgCdTe thin-layer biased and unbiased hot-electron bolometers (HEBs) with receiving antennas under elliptically polarized THz radiation. The observed effects are assumed to be due to the Rashba spin splitting in HgCdTe, caused by large spin-orbit interactions. The studied detectors demonstrate free-carrier polarization-dependent sensitivity to laser radiation with h 0.0044 eV (ν = 1.07 THz) and 0.0025 eV (ν = 0.6 THz), i.e., with photon energies much less than the band-gap (hν << Eg) at T = 80 and 300 K. The polarization-dependent photocurrent in HgCdTe HEBs with and without applied external constant electric field is shown to have angular dependence of photocurrent with directional reversal on switching the photon helicity.
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) (Publications)
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials