A photon detector with very high gain at low bias and at room temperature

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Memis, Omer Gokalp ^a   Katsnelson, Alex ^a   Kong, Soon Cheol ^a   Mohseni, Hooman ^a   Yan, Minjun ^b   Zhang, Shuang ^b   Hossain, Tim ^b   Jin, Niu ^b   Adesida, Ilesanmi ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS VOLTAGE; DARK CURRENTS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; GATES (TRANSISTOR); LIGHT ABSORPTION;

ABSORBING REGIONS; DARK CURRENT DENSITY; LIGHT DETECTION; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER (NEP); ROOM TEMPERATURE;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES;

EID: 35548992771     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2802043     Document Type: Article

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