Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 15, Issue 4, 12200(2022)

Dark current modeling of thick perovskite X-ray detectors

Shan Zhao1, Xinyuan Du1, Jincong Pang1, Haodi Wu1, Zihao Song1, Zhiping Zheng1,2, Ling Xu1,2, Jiang Tang1,2, and Guangda Niu1,2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2Optical Valley Laboratory, Wuhan 430074, China
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    Shan Zhao, Xinyuan Du, Jincong Pang, Haodi Wu, Zihao Song, Zhiping Zheng, Ling Xu, Jiang Tang, Guangda Niu. Dark current modeling of thick perovskite X-ray detectors[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2022, 15(4): 12200

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    Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Received: Jun. 14, 2022

    Accepted: Jul. 17, 2022

    Published Online: Jan. 22, 2023

    The Author Email: Niu Guangda (guangda_niu@hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-022-00044-1

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