Photodetectors : materials, devices and applications

<i><p>Photodetectors: Materials, Devices and Applications</i> discusses the devices that convert light to electrical signals, key components in communication, computation, and imaging systems. </p><p>In recent years, there has been significant improvement in photodetector performance, and this important book reviews some of the key advances in the field.</p><p>Part one covers materials, detector types, and devices, and includes discussion of silicon photonics, detectors based on reduced dimensional charge systems, carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanowires, low-temperature grown gallium arsenide, plasmonic, Si photomultiplier tubes, and organic photodetectors, while part two focuses on important applications of photodetectors, including microwave photonics, communications, high-speed single photon detection, THz detection, resonant cavity enhanced photodetection, photo-capacitors and imaging.</p><ul><li>Reviews materials, detector types and devices</li><li>Addresses fabrication techniques, and the advantages and limitations and different types of photodetector</li><li>Considers a range of application for this important technology</li><li>Includes discussions of silicon photonics, detectors based on reduced dimensional charge systems, carbon nanotubes, graphene, nanowires, and more</li></ul>