New Silicon Epitaxial Avalanche Diode For Single-Photon Timing At Room Temperature

Electronics Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 1988, Pages 1476-1477

  Ghioni, M ^a   Cova, S ^a   Lacaita, A ^a   Ripamonti, G ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Avalanche diodes; Optoelectronics; Photodiodes

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

CARRIER DIFFUSION; PN JUNCTIONS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILICON EPITAXIAL AVALANCHE DIODE; SINGLE-PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODES; SINGLE-PHOTON TIMING;

SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES, AVALANCHE;

EID: 0024107616     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19881007     Document Type: Article

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