Picosecond optoelectronic detection, sampling, and correlation measurements in amorphous semiconductors

D. H. Auston, Anthony Johnson, P. R. Smith, J. C. Bean

Applied Physics Letters · 1980 · 225 citations · 8 references

Concepts

Abstract

The rapid relaxation of the photoresponse of high-defect-density amorphous semiconductors such as evaporated a-Si has been utilized to develop an electronic measurement capability which can generate and sample electronic transients with speeds ≲10 ps.

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