Design of deep guard ring for geiger mode operation avalanche photodiode

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E88-C, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2136-2140

  Kagawa, Toshiaki ^a,b,c  

^a SHONAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^c IEEE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode; Geiger mode; Guard ring

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION; GEIGER MODE; GUARD RING;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 29144472322     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e88-c.11.2136     Document Type: Article

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