A reexamination of deep diffused silicon avalanche photodiode gain and quantum efficiency

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3049-3054

  McClish, Mickel ^a   Farrell, Richard ^a   Vanderpuye, Kofi ^a   Shah, Kanai S ^a  

^a RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; Quantum efficiency; Semiconductor device; Silicon radiation detector

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RADIATION DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE (APD); AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; PHOTOELECTRONS; SILICON RADIATION DETECTORS;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 33750400010     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.881545     Document Type: Article

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