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Infrared hybridized detectors are widely used in astronomy, and their performance can be degraded by image persistence. This results in remnant images that can persist in the detector for many hours, contaminating any subsequent…
Several theories exist to explain persistence, most of which revolve around the distribution of traps. We aim to simulate persistence and illustrate this complex issue with a 3D trap map. For this experiment, we vary the detector voltage…
Persistence effects in HgCdTe infrared detectors cause significant artifacts that can impact the quality of science observations for up to many hours after exposure to bright/saturating sources. This problem will have a substantially…
Typically, amorphous organic materials contain high density of traps. Traps hinder charge transport and, hence, affect various working parameters of organic electronic devices. In this paper we suggest a simple but reliable method for the…
The degradation of signal in silicon sensors is studied under conditions expected at the CERN High-Luminosity LHC. 200 $\mu$m thick n-type silicon sensors are irradiated with protons of different energies to fluences of up to $3 \cdot…
LSST Camera CCDs produced by the manufacturer e2v exhibit strong and novel residual charge images when exposed to bright sources. These manifest in images following bright exposures both in the same pixel areas as the bright source, and in…
A long-wavelength infrared (IR) photodetector based on two-dimensional materials working at room temperature would have wide applications in many aspects in remote sensing, thermal imaging, biomedical optics, and medical imaging. However,…
Charge collection properties of depleted CMOS pixel detector prototypes produced on p-type substrate of 2 k$\Omega$cm initial resistivity (by LFoundry 150 nm process) were studied using Edge-TCT method before and after neutron irradiation.…
Defect induced trap states are essential in determining the performance of semiconductor photodetectors. The de-trap time of carriers from a deep trap could be prolonged by several orders of magnitude as compared to shallow trap, resulting…
The JWST MIRI detector exhibits a flux deficit persistence, but its timescales and impacts remain largely uncharacterized, particularly at the longest imaging wavelengths. In this study, we analyze full-field MIRI imager observations at 21…
We report on observation of the infrared photoresistance of twisted bilayer graphene under continuous quantum cascade laser illumination at a frequency of 57.1 THz. The photoresistance shows an intricate sign-alternating behavior under…
Photodetectors are key optoelectronic building blocks performing the essential optical-to-electrical signal conversion, and unlike solar cells, operate at a specific wavelength and at high signal or sensory speeds. Towards achieving high…
Mid-infrared (mid-IR) photo-detection has been recently growing in importance because of its multiple applications, including vibrational spectroscopy and thermal imaging. We propose and demonstrate a novel pyro-resistive photo-detection…
There is strong interest in designing and realizing optically-active semiconductor nanostructures of greater complexity for applications in fields ranging from biomedical engineering to quantum computing. While these increasingly complex…
Edge-TCT and charge collection measurements with passive test structures made in LFoundry 150 nm CMOS process on p-type substrate with initial resistivity of over 3 k$\Omega$cm are presented. Measurements were made before and after…
This study evaluates the radiation tolerance of a 4H-SiC PIN detector under X-ray irradiation up to \SI{2}{MGy} (Si) at \SI{160}{keV}. The detector features a fully epitaxial vertical PIN structure with mesa terminations and field plates.…
A graphene-optimized silicon carbide PIN detector was fabricated and its radiation tolerance under X-ray irradiation of 160 keV was evaluated. Its electrical properties, charge collection performance and time resolution of beta-particles…
The current understanding of charge transfer dynamics in Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) is that charge is moved so quickly from one phase to the next in a clocking sequence and with a density so low that trapping of charge in the inter-phase…
Optical excitation and subsequent decay of graphene plasmons can produce a significant increase in charge-carrier temperature. An efficient method to convert this temperature elevation into a measurable electrical signal at room temperature…
Object detection in images has reached unprecedented performances. The state-of-the-art methods rely on deep architectures that extract salient features and predict bounding boxes enclosing the objects of interest. These methods essentially…