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Tiny avalanche photodiode detects single UV photons

Researchers at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering have demonstrated visible-blind avalanche photodiodes capable of detecting single photons in the ultraviolet region (360-200 nm). The Northwestern team, led by Manijeh Razeghi, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, became the world's first to demonstrate back-illuminated single photon detection from a III-nitride photodetector.

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