Investigation of the avalanche multiplication characteristics in advanced avalanche photodiodes (APDs)

• 主要作者: Toh, Rui Tze.
• 其他作者: Ng Beng Koon
• 格式: Final Year Project
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2012
• 主題: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Optics, optoelectronics, photonics
• 在線閱讀: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49936
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

Advanced semiconductor technology has enabled APDs with narrow multiplication widths, but such application has been limited due to poor performance predicted by the McIntyre’s expression, which is based on the local assumption that ignores the dead space effects of the impact ionization process. Usi...