High-speed light modulation in avalanche breakdown mode for Si diodes

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 628-630

  Chatterjee, Amitabh ^a   Bhuva, Bharat ^a   Schrimpf, Ronald ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

AVALANCHE BREAKDOWN MODE; BREAKDOWN CURRENTS; HIGH SPEED LIGHT MODULATION; SILICON DIODES;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 4444219608     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2004.834247     Document Type: Article

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