High Optical Power Nonlinear Dynamic Response of AIInAs/GaInAs MSM Photodiode

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 828-834

  Ashour, Iman S ^a   Vilcot, Jean Pierre ^a   Decoster, Didier ^a   Harari, Joseph ^b  

^a INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^b Ecole Universitaire D'Ingénieurs de Lille EUDIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CHARGE CARRIERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE; HARMONIC GENERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

ALUMINUM INDIUM ARSENIDE; CURRENT CONTINUITY EQUATION; GALLIUM INDIUM ARSENIDE; HIGH OPTICAL POWER; NONLINEAR ELECTRICAL RESPONSE; POISSON EQUATIONS;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 0029307728     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.381976     Document Type: Article

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