Mechanisms of enhanced sub-bandgap absorption in high-speed all-silicon avalanche photodiodes

Yuan Yuan; Wayne V. Sorin; Di Liang; Stanley Cheung; Yiwei Peng; Mudit Jain; Zhihong Huang; Marco Fiorentino; Raymond G. Beausoleil

doi:10.1364/PRJ.475384

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