title: Narrow spectral response schottky photodiodes.
abstract: Spicer's absorption diffusion model is extended to analyze Schottky photodiodes which possess special characteristics. The model describes the generation of minority carriers by optical absorption in the bulk of a semiconductor material. The magnitude and shape of the spectral response for a minimally depleted device is found to depend on the rate of variation of the absorption coefficient with wavelength on the thickness of the absorbing region T and on the minority carrier's diffusion length l. Narrow spectral response can exist in this device only in the wavelength region wherein the absorption coefficient alpha is rapidly changing. A combination of high quantum efficiency with sharp tuning is found to exist.
authors.affiliation: Air Force Avionics Laboratory, Researchand Technology Division, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Sizelove
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Love