Photodetection in silicon beyond the band edge with surface states

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1659-1668

  Baehr Jones, T ^c   Hochberg, M ^a   Scherer, A ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTODETECTORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SILICON; WAVELENGTH;

MINIMAL FALLOFF; SURFACE STATES; TELECOMMUNICATIONS WAVELENGTHS;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; PHOTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROELECTRODES; PHOTOMETRY; SILICON; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 39049087498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001659     Document Type: Article

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