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Photonics Research
Vol. 7, Issue 3, 351 (2019)

Visible-blind short-wavelength infrared photodetector with high responsivity based on hyperdoped silicon

Xiaodong Qiu¹, Zijing Wang¹, Xiaotong Hou¹, Xuegong Yu^1,2,*, and Deren Yang^1,3,*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

²e-mail: yuxuegong@zju.edu.cn

³e-mail: mseyang@zju.edu.cn

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