Silicon nanowire metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 3, 2010, Pages

  Adachi, Michael M ^a   Wang, Kai ^a   Chen, Feng ^a   Karim, Karim S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

MSM; Photodetector; Silicon nanowire

Indexed keywords

APPLIED BIAS; BLUE LED LIGHTS; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODE SPACING; LARGE-AREA DIGITAL IMAGING; METAL SEMICONDUCTOR METAL PHOTODETECTOR; MSM; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (PE CVD); RESPONSIVITY; RISETIMES; SILICON NANOWIRES;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT SOURCES; MEDICAL IMAGING; NANOWIRES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SILICON;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

EID: 78650155614     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.845503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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