Single CdTe microwire photodetectors grown by close-spaced sublimation method

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 18843-18848

  Yang, Gwangseok ^a   Kim, Byung Jae ^a   Kim, Donghwan ^a   Kim, Jihyun ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SUBLIMATION;

CLOSE SPACED SUBLIMATION; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR (FETS); FIELD-EFFECT MOBILITIES; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; P-TYPE BEHAVIORS; PHOTORESPONSES; ULTRAVIOLET LIGHTS; UV ILLUMINATIONS;

CADMIUM TELLURIDE;

EID: 84906098448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.018843     Document Type: Article

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