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Taming photons to sense fast and faint infrared signals

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The performance of infrared photodiodes designed with narrow-bandgap semiconductors is limited by inherent noise and the need for a low-temperature operation to mitigate it, while they also face a speed–efficiency trade-off.

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Fig. 1: Schematics showing different components of an APD designed with photon-trapping structures.

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Islam, M.S. Taming photons to sense fast and faint infrared signals. Nat. Photon. 17, 554–555 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01235-8

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