An opto-electro-mechanical infrared photon detector with high internal gain at room temperature

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 14458-14465

  Kohoutek, John ^a   Wan, Ivy Yoke Leng ^a   Memis, Omer Gokalp ^a   Mohseni, Hooman ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

CHARGE COMPRESSION; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; LOW LIGHT LEVEL IMAGING; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOINDUCED CHANGE; QUANTUM COMPUTING; THEORETICAL MODELING; TUNNELING CURRENT;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; PHOTON; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; PHOTONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 69049102086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014458     Document Type: Article

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