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Characterization of the LW10 devices showed the presence of four main sources of dark current: diffusion, generation-recombination, band-to-band tunneling, and trap-to-band tunneling dark current.
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Cabrera, M. (2020). Dark Current Theory. In: Development of 15 Micron Cutoff Wavelength HgCdTe Detector Arrays for Astronomy. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54241-2_3
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