Mahdi Pourfath, Hans Kosina, and Siegfried Selberherr Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien, Gußhausstraße 27–29/E360, A-1040 Wien, Austria Email: {pourfath|kosina|selberherr}@iue.tuwien.ac.at Graphite-related materials such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene have been extensively studied in recent years due to their exceptional electronic, opto-electronic, and mechanical properties. How...

We report on photo-detectors consisting of an optical waveguide that incorporates a resonant tunneling diode (RTD). Operating at wavelengths around 1.55 μm in the optical communications C band we achieve maximum sensitivities of around 0.29 A/W which is dependent on the bias voltage. This is due to the nature of RTD nonlinear current-voltage characteristic that has a negative differential resis...

Research into III-Nitride based avalanche photodiodes (APDs) is motivated by the need for high sensitivity ultraviolet (UV) detectors in numerous civilian and military applications. By designing III-Nitride photodetectors that utilize low-noise impact ionization high internal gain can be realized—GaN APDs operating in Geiger mode can achieve gains exceeding 1×10. Thus with careful design, it be...

A general solution to the positive ion feedback problem in Hybrid Photon Detectors (HPD), photo multipliers (PM) and other similar detectors was found in the insertion of a permanent electrostatic potential barrier which prevents drift of positive ions from the anode, or the first dynode, towards the photocathode. In this paper we present the method as applied to the Intevac HPD.

1. Survey 1.1. Characteristics to be analyzed 1.2. Concentration Units 1.3. Presentation of Analytical Results 1.4. Quality of Analyses 1.5. Analytical Procedures 2. Flue Gas Sampling 2.1. Sampling Effluents 2.2. Organic Micropollutants Sampling 2.3. Gas Sampling Train 2.4. Sampling of Inorganic Compounds 3. Gas Analyzers 3.1. Survey 3.2. Gas Chromatographic Separation 3.3. Gas Chromatographic ...

Since lots of events in nature are followed by the emission of electromagnetic (e.m.) radiation in certain wavelengths regions, the necessity to observe, measure and analyze such events have driven the development of suitable radiation detectors. Electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectral region and its spectroscopical neighbourhood, Ultraviolet as well as Infrared, are of major interest...

We have experimentally compared the critical current, dark count rate and photo-response of 100nm wide superconducting nanowires with different bend designs. Enhanced critical current for nanowires with optimally rounded bends, and thus with no current crowding, are observed. Furthermore, we find that the optimally designed bend significantly reduces the dark counts without compromising the pho...

Integral linear energy transfer (LET) spectra of cosmic radiation (CR) particles were measured on five Cosmos series spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO). Particular emphasis is placed on results of the Cosmos 1887 biosatellite which carried a set of joint U.S.S.R.-U.S.A. radiation experiments involving passive detectors that included thermoluminescent detectors (TLDs), plastic nuclear track de...