Electrical Characterizations of 35-kV Semi-Insulating Gallium Arsenide Photoconductive Switch

Performance of semi-insulating gallium arsenide X-ray pixel detectors with current-integrating readout

First images are presented from tests of a semi-insulating gallium arsenide X-ray imaging detector, flip-chip bonded to a current integrating CMOS readout chip. The detector is designed for applications in synchrotron X-ray imaging. The X-ray sensing part of the detector consists of a 150 mm thick GaAs photodiode containing an array of 92 100 pixels, each 150mm by 150 mm in size. Operating the ...

Photodetectors based on carbon nanotubes deposited by using a spray technique on semi-insulating gallium arsenide

In this paper, a spray technique is used to perform low temperature deposition of multi-wall carbon nanotubes on semi-insulating gallium arsenide in order to obtain photodectors. A dispersion of nanotube powder in non-polar 1,2-dichloroethane is used as starting material. The morphological properties of the deposited films has been analysed by means of electron microscopy, in scanning and trans...

Gallium Nitride Photoconductive Detectors

Since 1994, the Applied Physics Laboratory has been collaborating with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to develop photodetectors based on gallium nitride and aluminum gallium nitride material produced in the Milton S. Eisenhower Research and Technology Development Center. This article describes the results of our collaboration and highlights the development of gallium nitride photodetectors wi...

Electrical conduction in annealed semi-insulating InP

Gallium Arsenide - Based Readout Electronics

The readout of detector arrays requires the monolithic or hybrid integration of a integrate circuit multiplexer with the detector array. In most LWIR and VLWIR applications, a hybrid approach is used. For example, the detector array may be built from HgCdTe and the readout integrated circuit may be silicon CMOS [1]. The two integrated circuits are mated through a bump-bonding process in which e...