High-speed performance self-powered short wave ultraviolet radiation detectors based on κ(ε)-Ga2O3

Aleksei Almaev; Alexander Tsymbalov; Bogdan Kushnarev; Vladimir Nikolaev; Alexei Pechnikov; Mikhail Scheglov; Andrei Chikiryaka; Petr Korusenko

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/45/4/042502

Journal of Semiconductors, Volume. 45, Issue 4, 042502(2024)

High-speed performance self-powered short wave ultraviolet radiation detectors based on κ(ε)-Ga₂O₃

Aleksei Almaev^1,2、*, Alexander Tsymbalov¹, Bogdan Kushnarev¹, Vladimir Nikolaev^3,4, Alexei Pechnikov⁴, Mikhail Scheglov⁴, Andrei Chikiryaka⁴, and Petr Korusenko^5,6

Author Affiliations

¹Research and Development Center for Advanced Technologies in Microelectronics, National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk 634050, Russia

²Fokon LLC, Kaluga 248035, Russia

³Department of Semiconductor Electronics and Physics of Semiconductors, National University of Science and Technology MISIS, Moscow 119049, Russia

⁴Perfect Crystals LLC, Saint Petersburg 194223, Russia

⁵Department of Solid-State Electronics, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia

⁶Department of Physics, Omsk State Technical University, Omsk 644050, Russia

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Received: Oct. 21, 2023

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Published Online: Jun. 21, 2024

The Author Email: Aleksei Almaev (AAlmaev)

DOI:10.1088/1674-4926/45/4/042502

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