We report on the performance of GaAs/AlGaAs quantum-well infrared detectors exhibiting intersubband absorption in the 8–14 μm band. The dark current characteristics have been investigated as a function of barrier width and electron density in the well and compared with a model which takes into account thermionic emission and thermally assisted tunneling in the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation. The model gives a good description of the data and is extended to predict the variation of detectivity and background limited operating temperature with structural parameters.
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