Photodetectors: Materials, Devices and Applications

Photodetectors: Materials, Devices and Applications discusses the devices that convert light to electrical signals, key components in communication, computation, and imaging systems.

In recent years, there has been significant improvement in photodetector performance, and this important book reviews some of the key advances in the field.

Part one covers materials, detector types, and devices, and includes discussion of silicon photonics, detectors based on reduced dimensional charge systems, carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanowires, low-temperature grown gallium arsenide, plasmonic, Si photomultiplier tubes, and organic photodetectors, while part two focuses on important applications of photodetectors, including microwave photonics, communications, high-speed single photon detection, THz detection, resonant cavity enhanced photodetection, photo-capacitors and imaging.

Reviews materials, detector types and devicesAddresses fabrication techniques, and the advantages and limitations and different types of photodetectorConsiders a range of application for this important technologyIncludes discussions of silicon photonics, detectors based on reduced dimensional charge systems, carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanowires, and more

Part I: Materials, Detector Types and Devices

1 Photodetectors for silicon photonic integrated circuits

2 Hi-speed high-sensitivity no bias photo detector based on bilayer charge plasma

3 Carbon nanotube and graphene photonic devices

4 Nanowire enabled photodetection

5 Low temperature grown gallium arsenide (LT-GaAs) high speed detectors

6 Plasmonic photodetectors

7 Organic photodetectors

8 Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM)

Part II: Applications of Photodetectors

9 Photodetectors for microwave photonics

10 CMOS- integrated waveguide photodetectors for communications applications

11 Silicon based single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) technology for low-light and high-speed applications

12 Terahertz (THz) detectors

13 Resonant cavity enhanced photodetectors: theory, design and modeling

14 Unconventional photo capacitor with giant light induced capacitance enhancement