Vertical CNT-Si photodiode array

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4131-4136

  Ahnood, Arman ^a,b   Zhou, Hang ^c   Dai, Qing ^a   Vygranenko, Yuri ^d   Suzuki, Yuji ^e   Esmaeili Rad, Mr ^f   Amaratunga, Gehan ^a   Nathan, Arokia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; electric field enhancement; thin film silicon; Vertical photodiode

Indexed keywords

CATHODE ELECTRODES; ELECTRIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; HIGHER RESOLUTION; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; PARTICLE DETECTION; PHOTODIODE ARRAYS; THIN FILM SILICON; VERTICALLY ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE;

CARBON NANOTUBES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SILICON;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 84884217276     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl401636v     Document Type: Article

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