Visible-blind short-wavelength infrared photodetector with high responsivity based on hyperdoped silicon

Xiaodong Qiu; Zijing Wang; Xiaotong Hou; Xuegong Yu; Deren Yang

doi:doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000351

Photonics Research, 2019, 7 (3): 03000351, Published Online: Mar. 7, 2019

Visible-blind short-wavelength infrared photodetector with high responsivity based on hyperdoped silicon

Xiaodong Qiu ¹Zijing Wang ¹Xiaotong Hou ¹Xuegong Yu ^1,2,*Deren Yang ^1,3,*

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¹ State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

² e-mail: yuxuegong@zju.edu.cn

³ e-mail: mseyang@zju.edu.cn

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Xiaodong Qiu, Zijing Wang, Xiaotong Hou, Xuegong Yu, Deren Yang. Visible-blind short-wavelength infrared photodetector with high responsivity based on hyperdoped silicon[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(3): 03000351.

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