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Concept of new photodetector based on single electron transistor for single charge detection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

M. Troudi*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Microélectronique et Instrumentation, UR/03/13-04, Faculté des Sciences de Monastir, Avenue de l'Environnement, 5019 Monastir, Tunisia
N. Sghaier
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Microélectronique et Instrumentation, UR/03/13-04, Faculté des Sciences de Monastir, Avenue de l'Environnement, 5019 Monastir, Tunisia Équipe composants électroniques, UR/99/13-22, Institut Préparatoire aux Études d'Ingénieurs de Nabeul (IPEIN), 8000 Merazka, Nabeul, Tunisia
A. Kalboussi
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Microélectronique et Instrumentation, UR/03/13-04, Faculté des Sciences de Monastir, Avenue de l'Environnement, 5019 Monastir, Tunisia
A. Souifi
Affiliation:
Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon, Site INSA UMR 5270, Bât. Blaise Pascal, 7 av. Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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Abstract

In this paper, we present a model proposition of photo-SET (single electron photo-detector) aiming at detecting one by one electrons. In the first part of this work, we present the two blocs of the proposed photo-SET (reading and detection blocs). The device structure presented is consisting of two SETs capacitively coupled. In this model, the first SET (SET1) is supposed to read the charge whereas the detection bloc is represented by the second SET (SET2). In the second part, we investigate the effects of photoexcitation on Id-Vg curves and we present results obtained on the output photo-SET characteristics after variation of power illumination and response time.

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© EDP Sciences, 2009

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