Single-Photon Avalanche Diode with Ultrafast Pulse Response Free from Slow Tails

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1993, Pages 360-362

  Lacaita, Andrea ^a   Cova, Sergio ^a   Ghioni, Massimo ^a   Zappa, F ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTONS; RADIATION COUNTERS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES (APD); PHOTON COUNTING; SILICON APD; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODES; ULTRAFAST PULSE RESPONSE;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 0027629270     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: 15580563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/55.225573     Document Type: Article

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