Nanoscale avalanche photodiodes for highly sensitive and spatially resolved photon detection

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 352-356

  Hayden, Oliver ^a,c   Agarwal, Ritesh ^a,d   Lieber, Charles M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; CALIBRATION; PHOTOCURRENTS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; NANOPOSITIONING; NANOWIRES;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 33646492021     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1635     Document Type: Article

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