Nabet B. (Ed.) Photodetectors: Materials, Devices and Applications

Elsevier / Woodhead Publishing, 2016. — 535 p. — (Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials: Number 84). — ISBN: 978-1-78242-445-1.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.Key FeaturesReviews materials, detector types and devices
Addresses fabrication techniques, and the advantages and limitations and different types of photodetector
Considers a range of application for this important technology
Includes discussions of silicon photonics, detectors based on reduced dimensional charge systems, carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanowires, and more.
Readership: postgraduate students and academic researchers in electronics, optics, photonics, sensors, physics, material science and engineering; R&D managers in industrial sectors such as communications, medical imaging and photovoltaics.