- Source: Indium arsenide
Indium arsenide, InAs, or indium monoarsenide, is a narrow-bandgap semiconductor composed of indium and arsenic. It has the appearance of grey cubic crystals with a melting point of 942 °C.
Indium arsenide is similar in properties to gallium arsenide and is a direct bandgap material, with a bandgap of 0.35 eV at room temperature.
Indium arsenide is used for the construction of infrared detectors, for the wavelength range of 1.0–3.8 μm. The detectors are usually photovoltaic photodiodes. Cryogenically cooled detectors have lower noise, but InAs detectors can be used in higher-power applications at room temperature as well. Indium arsenide is also used for making diode lasers.
InAs is well known for its high electron mobility and narrow energy bandgap. It is widely used as a terahertz radiation source as it is a strong photo-Dember emitter.
Quantum dots can be formed in a monolayer of indium arsenide on indium phosphide or gallium arsenide. The mismatches of lattice constants of the materials create tensions in the surface layer, which in turn leads to the formation of the quantum dots. Quantum dots can also be formed in indium gallium arsenide, as indium arsenide dots sitting in the gallium arsenide matrix.
References
Cited sources
Haynes, William M., ed. (2016). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (97th ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 9781498754293.
External links
Ioffe institute data archive entry
National Compound Semiconductor Roadmap entry for InAs at ONR web site
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- Dioda pemancar cahaya
- Arsen
- Semikonduktor
- Galium
- Wafer (elektronik)
- Fabrikasi wafer (elektronik)
- Belerang
- Galium arsenida
- Komunikasi serat optik
- Neptunium
- Indium arsenide
- Indium gallium arsenide
- Indium phosphide
- Aluminium indium arsenide
- Indium gallium arsenide phosphide
- Gallium arsenide
- Indium arsenide antimonide
- List of semiconductor materials
- Gallium arsenide phosphide
- Indium arsenide antimonide phosphide
