@inproceedings{c3890ca00cab46cc992c8fd8fef89fb4,
title = "Approaching high temperature photon counting with electron-injection detectors",
abstract = "Our group has designed and developed a novel telecom band photon detector called the electron-injection detector. The detector provides a high avalanche-free internal-amplification and a stable excess noise factor of near unity while operating at linear-mode with low bias voltages. In our previous reports on un-isolated detectors, the large dark current of the detectors prevented long integration times in the camera. Furthermore, the bandwidth of the un-isolated detectors was in the KHz range. Recently, by changing the 3D geometry and isolating the detectors from each other, we have achieved 3 orders of magnitude reduction in dark current at same bias voltage and temperature compared to our previous results. Isolated detectors have internal dark current densities of 0.1nA/cm2 at 160 K. Furthermore, they have a bandwidth that is 4 orders of magnitude higher than the un-isolated devices. In this paper we report room temperature and low temperature characteristics of the isolated electron-injection detectors. We show that the measured optical gain displays a small dependence on temperature over our measured range down to 220 K.",
keywords = "Single photon detector, bio-inspired, infrared detector, low internal dark current, short-wave infrared",
author = "V. Fathipour and Jang, {S. J.} and I. Hassaninia and H. Mohseni",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 SPIE.; Infrared Sensors, Devices, and Applications IV ; Conference date: 18-08-2014 Through 20-08-2014",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1117/12.2060482",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "D'Souza, {Arvind I.} and Priyalal Wijewarnasuriya and LeVan, {Paul D.} and Sood, {Ashok K.}",
booktitle = "Infrared Sensors, Devices, and Applications IV",
}