Aging effects of Schottky barrier position sensitive detectors

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1557-1563

  Henry, Jasmine ^a,b   Livingstone, John ^b  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Position sensitive detector (PSD); Schottky barrier

Indexed keywords

METAL OXIDES; POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS (PSD); PSEUDOMETAL INSULATOR SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES; SCHOTTKY BARRIER;

AGING OF MATERIALS; ALUMINUM; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOS DEVICES; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SILICON; TANTALUM; TITANIUM;

METAL DETECTORS;

EID: 33845636562     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2006.884555     Document Type: Article

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