Design and fabrication of AlGaN-based resonant-cavity-enhanced p-i-n UV PDs

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 575-578

  Nie, Chao ^a   Jiang, Ruo Lian ^a   Ji, Xiao Li ^b   Xie, Zi Li ^a   Liu, Bin ^a   Han, Ping ^a   Zhang, Rong ^a   Zheng, You Dou ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

AlGaN; Distributed Bragg reflector (DBR); Resonant cavity enhanced (RCE); Transfer matrix approach (TMA); Ultraviolet (UV) photodetector (PD)

Indexed keywords

ALGAN; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR (DBR); RESONANT-CAVITY-ENHANCED (RCE); TRANSFER-MATRIX-APPROACH (TMA); ULTRAVIOLET (UV) PHOTODETECTOR (PD);

BRAGG CELLS; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; GALLIUM; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; REFLECTION; THERMOANALYSIS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 66149158264     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2013146     Document Type: Article

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