A photodiode is a semiconductor diode sensitive to photon radiation, such as visible light, infrared or ultraviolet radiation, X-rays and gamma rays. It...

An avalanche photodiode (APD) is a highly sensitive type of photodiode, which in general are semiconductor diodes that convert light into electricity...

opaque package. Other types of source-sensor combinations include LED-photodiode, LED-LASCR, and lamp-photoresistor pairs. Usually opto-isolators transfer...

been overcome by using microlenses in front of each photodiode, which focus light into the photodiode that would have otherwise hit the amplifier and not...

0,1% • °C) A photodiode-based pyranometer is composed by a housing dome, a photodiode, and a diffuser or optical filters. The photodiode has a small surface...

that is more linear than the voltage response. This is the case with photodiodes where it is not uncommon for the current response to have better than...

Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode (G-APD or GM-APD) is a solid-state photodetector within the same family as photodiodes and avalanche photodiodes (APDs), while...

where each pixel sensor unit cell has a photodetector (typically a pinned photodiode) and one or more active transistors. In a metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS)...

– a diode that emits light Photodiode – passes current in proportion to incident light Avalanche photodiode – photodiode with internal gain Solar Cell...

photodetectors, and high-voltage power electronics applications. The PIN photodiode was invented by Jun-Ichi Nishizawa and his colleagues in 1950. It is a...

the LED to cool off. In addition to emission, an LED can be used as a photodiode in light detection. This capability may be used in a variety of applications...

The absorbed photons make electron–hole pairs in the depletion region. Photodiodes and photo transistors are a few examples of photo detectors. Solar cells...

infrared detector. The spectral response of a GaInAs photodiode is shown in Figure 5. GaInAs photodiodes are the preferred choice in the wavelength range...

as the probe beam. The absorption of the probe beam is recorded on a photodiode for various frequencies of the beams. Although the two beams are at the...

area. For pixels without microlenses, the fill factor is the ratio of photodiode area to total pixel area, but the use of microlenses increases the effective...

photosites that consist of three vertically stacked photodiodes. Each of the three stacked photodiodes has a different spectral sensitivity, allowing it...

LEDs can also be used as low-efficiency photodiodes in signal applications. An LED may be paired with a photodiode or phototransistor in the same package...

technologies as follows: Pen-type readers consist of a light source and photodiode that are placed next to each other at the tip of a pen. To read a barcode...

carriers could be transferred from the photodiode to the CCD. This led to their invention of the pinned photodiode, a photodetector structure with low lag...

typically a photomultiplier tube, a photodiode, a photodiode array or a charge-coupled device (CCD). Single photodiode detectors and photomultiplier tubes...

presence of electric fields. Photoelectric or photovoltaic effect, used in: photodiodes (including solar cells) phototransistors photomultipliers optoisolators...

purchase books Personal digital assistant, an early kind of mobile device Photodiode array, a type of detector Pitch detection algorithm, to find the pitch...

deflection of the probe cantilever is detected through standard split photodiode detector methods and then demodulated by use of a lock-in amplifier (LiA)...

GL, de Mazancourt P, Alvarez JC (April 2004). "Liquid chromatography/photodiode array detection for determination of strychnine in blood: a fatal case...

lower cost thanks to the absence of collimation optics and external photodiodes. After the development of the classic external interferometric configurations...

amplified before entering an external electronic circuit. In an avalanche photodiode the original charge carrier is created by the absorption of a photon....

vibrometer (optical) Linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) Photodiode array Piezo-electric transducer (piezo-electric) Position encoders: Absolute...

Photocurrent is the electric current through a photosensitive device, such as a photodiode, as the result of exposure to radiant power. The photocurrent may occur...

diode (LD) Light-emitting diode (LED) Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) Photodiode PIN diode Schottky diode Step recovery diode Zener diode Other devices...

diode (LD) Light-emitting diode (LED) Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) Photodiode PIN diode Schottky diode Step recovery diode Zener diode Other devices...