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... structure InGaAs/InP – PIN photodiode is show in the figure Fig Schematic cross section of a planar structure InP Photodiode 10 Photodiodes - World Activities in2011In the case of InP Photodiodes we ... 2011 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechweb.org Photodiodes - World Activities in ... photodiodes in the near infrared wavelength In fact, in this chapter is studying the behavior of the photodetectors in the near infrared with the linearly polarized and non polarized lights in the...
... Non injecting nature of the metal-semiconductor junction suppresses internal photocurrent gain Presence of the carrier injection in one of the junctions allowed one to obtain photocurrent gain ... low injection currents, the dot electroluminescence spectrum reveals a single sharp line due to single exciton recombination (one electron and one hole within a quantum dot), while another line ... vectors appeared in the wavefunction including polarization and the wave vector To find the eigen value, Einstein proposed a generalized quantization rule (Stone, 2005, as cited in Einstein, 1997) C...
... in2011 Accumulation mode for signal integration in imaging The basic operating modes are very useful for real time measurement of light intensity that falls on a photodiode However, in imaging ... result in a genuine N-partite entanglement with N time-distinct constituents In the proposed scheme of 6-partite entanglement, the two pulse trains containing three timedistinct pulses in each ... sensing P-i-N photodiode Increasing the active region where the signal generating photogenerated carriers originated from should in principle increase the collection efficiency Previously, increasing...
... 128x128 imaging array using lateral bipolar phototransistors in a standard CMOS process [fingerprint detection]," in Circuits and Systems, 1998 ISCAS '98 Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International ... processing circuitry leading to low cost miniaturized systems [100, 101] In 1998, a system termed as bioluminescent-bioreporter integrated circuit (BBIC) was introduced that described placing genetically ... silicon oxynitride layers deposited as insulating and passivation layers Confinement of light is achieved by an increased refractive index in the light guiding film, compared to silicon oxide The...
... determines the moment of performing the comparison, while the sampling interval (Ts) Note that the comparison occurs simultaneously in all pixels in the array In the sampling instants (Ts) in which ... counter are integrated per pixel The counter starts the count in the beginning of integration time The comparator output signal goes high in the comparison instant stopping the counting Assuming that ... determines the code related to that comparison time or light intensity incident Fig 5(a) shows the main signals for regular interval sampling time Ti For a given integration time Tint the regular interval...
... comparison to InP, tunnelling currents remain lower in InAlAs due to its larger bandgap While holes ionise more readily than electrons in InP, the opposite holds true for InAlAs and InGaAs, as electrons ... ionise more readily than holes; thus making the InGaAs/InAlAs combination superior to InGaAs/InP in a SAM APD, in terms of lower excess noise, higher gain-bandwidth product, and improved sensitivity ... material systems including InP and InAlAs In this chapter, we will describe the model used to investigate the receiver-sensitivityoptimisation of InP and InAlAs APDs, which include dark current...
... sensitivity performance of InP, InAlAs, and InP and InAlAs APDs 7.2 InP APD optimisation Sensitivity versus gain curves were calculated for the InP APDs and the results are shown in Figure The key observation ... corresponding optimal mean gain (dashed line, right axis) versus InP APD avalanche width for a 10 Gb/s transmission system 7.3 Competing performance-determining factors In order to independently ... However, the relative dominance of increasing keff (resulting in an increase in the excess noise) and decreasing diode bandwidth becomes clear through careful observation of the incomplete calculations...
... we introduce some practical techniques of near-infrared single-photon detection, containing four sections as following: i) InGaAs/InP APD SPD; ii) Photonnumber-resolving detector based on a InGaAs/InP ... [58] performed a very interesting study concerning the response of SiPM devices to the electrons impinging Results they found have been so encouraging and interesting to influence also the title ... University China Introduction With the rapid increase of research interest in quantum information (Bennett&Brassard, 1984; Gisin et al., 2002; Knill et al., 2001), the near-infrared single-photon...
... light pulse while keeping the same shape In this way, the AC electronic signal is transformed to optical signal, preserving the original information from the InGaAs/InP APD including the capacitive ... Activities in2011 output of the InGaAs/InP APD is proportional to the input photon number And we prove that the PNR performance is determined by the multiplication gain of the InGaAs/InP APD and input ... shown in Fig 17(c) Since the main voltage noise is derived from the ASE beat on the PIN photodiode, the variance of the noise increased nonlinearly with the average output power, indicating that...
... solid line refers to the PDE obtained with the photocurrent method, while the dashed line refers to the PDE obtained with the photon counting technique Unequivocally the PDE values obtained using ... interface (Lau et al., 1979) In 1991, Imthurn developed a method of directly bonding a silicon wafer to the sapphire R-plane followed by thinning the silicon using chemical mechanical polishing ... by incorporating an antireflective bilayer between sapphire and silicon, consisting of single crystal AlN and amorphous silicon nitride (a-SiNX) as shown in Fig The design of the novel AlN/a-SiNX...
... impurities in the intrinsic SCD active layer would determine a drastic worsening of the resulting performances, in terms of increasing of the dark current, temporal instability, memory effects, priming, ... laboratories by using MPECVD technique previously explained The nominally intrinsic diamond is deposited by using a completely separated apparatus in order to avoid any boron contamination In fact, the ... and calculation of indirect optical crosstalk will therefore assume that the point source of light at infinity is focused to an infinitesimal rather than a finite diameter point in the image plane,...
... Photodiodes - World Activities in2011 between donors and acceptors plays a key role in determining the luminescence efficiency of the radiative recombination in the yellow luminescence band It is found ... observed in the whole energy range and irradiation memory or pumping effects were not observed In addition, a linear increase in the photoresponse as a function of calculated radiation intensity ... change in the intensity of in situ optical reflectivity during the starting period of the growth of GaN epilayer, as shown by the arrow in Fig 1(b) As shown in Table 1, sample A has a narrower FWHM...
... 100 keV) In order to minimize patient radiation dose in medical imaging, it is helpful to increase stopping power, since stopping power is inversely related to the dose required for obtaining high ... disappearance of stacking faults in the layers of CdTe (according to TEM stacking faults were absent in the entire volume of the heterostructure) Annealing in atmosphere of cadmium and in an inert atmosphere ... surface containing the domains obtained in the pole (100) Pictures of microdiffraction received from adjacent domains are identical indicating that there is no rotation of crystal lattices in the relevant...