Near-infrared organic photodiodes

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1016-1025

  Arca, Francesco ^a,b   Sramek, Maria ^a   Tedde, Sandro Francesco ^a   Lugli, Paolo ^b   Hayden, Oliver ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Near infrared; Organic; Photodiode; Semiconductor; Sensor

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR INFRARED SPECTRA; ORGANIC; RECTIFICATION RATIO; SEMICONDUCTOR PROPERTIES; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTODIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SENSORS; SPECTROSCOPY;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 84887349466     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2013.2285158     Document Type: Article

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