Development of an amorphous selenium-based photodetector driven by a diamond cold cathode

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 13744-13778

  Masuzawa, Tomoaki ^a   Saito, Ichitaro ^a   Yamada, Takatoshi ^b   Onishi, Masanori ^a   Yamaguchi, Hisato ^a   Suzuki, Yu ^a   Oonuki, Kousuke ^a   Kato, Nanako ^a   Ogawa, Shuichi ^c   Takakuwa, Yuji ^c   Koh, Angel T T ^d   Chua, Daniel H C ^d   Mori, Yusuke ^e   Shimosawa, Tatsuo ^f   Okano, Ken ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amorphous selenium; Carrier multiplication; Cold cathode; Diamond; Photodetector

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885944704     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s131013744     Document Type: Review

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