Geiger mode avalanche photodiodes for microarray systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4626, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 89-97

  Phelan, Don ^a   Jackson, J C ^b   Redfern, R M ^a   Morrison, Alan P ^c   Mathewson, Alan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b National Microelectronics Research Centre   (Ireland)

^c Power Electronics Research Laboratories   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Active Quench Circuit; AQC; Avalanche Photodiode; GM APD; Microarray

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DNA; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FLUORESCENCE; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; PROTEINS;

MICROARRAY SYSTEMS;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 0036403551     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.472068     Document Type: Article

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