A New MOS Photon-Counting Sensor Operating in the Above-Breakdown Regime

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 1984, Pages 1420-1427

  Lester, T P ^a   Pulfrey, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, CHARGE COUPLED; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, MOS - APPLICATIONS; SENSORS;

ABOVE-BREAKDOWN REGIME; PHOTON-COUNTING SENSOR; SELF-SCANNED CCD ARRAY;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0021501856     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1984.21727     Document Type: Article

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