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Look out III–V

Nature Photonics volume 3, pages 7–8 (2009)Cite this article

Optical communication makes good use of sensitive avalanche photodiodes, typically made from group III–V semiconductor compounds. New research shows that silicon may be a viable alternative material for realizing such detectors with better performance.

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Figure 1: An scanning electron microscope cross-sectional view of the semiconductor avalanche photodiode created by Kang et al.3.

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  1. Yasunori Tokuda and Eiji Yagyu are at the Advanced Technology R&D Centre, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Amagasaki, Hyogo 661-8661, Japan. Tokuda.Yasunori@ab.MitsubishiElectric.co.jp Yagyu.Eiji@cb.MitsubishiElectric.co.jp.,

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