Steady-State Photocarrier Collection in Silicon Imaging Devices

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 1983, Pages 1123-1134

  Lavine, James P ^a   Trabka, Eugene A ^a   Burkey, Bruce C ^a   Tredwell, Timothy J ^a   Nelson, Edward T ^a   Anagnostopoulos, Constantine ^a  

^a EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

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PHOTOCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 0020180686     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1983.21268     Document Type: Article

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