Enhancing large-area Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode performance through dynamic memristor quenching: a study on improving count rate, reducing jitter and mitigating afterpulsing

Jizhe Zhao; Jiyuan Zheng; Yubo Yang; Yinjie Liu; Xiayang Hua; Lai Wang; Zhibiao Hao; Anran Guo; Yi Luo

doi:10.35848/1882-0786/ad5512

Applied Physics Express (Jan 2024)

Enhancing large-area Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode performance through dynamic memristor quenching: a study on improving count rate, reducing jitter and mitigating afterpulsing

Jizhe Zhao,
Jiyuan Zheng,
Yubo Yang,
Yinjie Liu,
Xiayang Hua,
Lai Wang,
Zhibiao Hao,
Anran Guo,
Yi Luo

Affiliations

Jizhe Zhao: Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China; Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
Jiyuan Zheng: ORCiD; Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
Yubo Yang: Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
Yinjie Liu: Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China; Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
Xiayang Hua: Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China; Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
Lai Wang: Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China; Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
Zhibiao Hao: Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
Anran Guo: Department of Solid State Image Sensor, CETC No. 44 Research Institute, CETC Chips Technology Group Co., Ltd., Chongqing, 401332 People’s Republic of China
Yi Luo: Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China; Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University , Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35848/1882-0786/ad5512
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 17, no. 7
p. 074501

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While the larger photosensitive area of Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (GmAPDs) enhances their detection range and signal collection, improving their utility in weak light detection, their practicality is limited by a long recovery time, high afterpulsing probability (AP) and excessive jitter. Utilizing a dynamic memristor as a quenching resistor, this research improves the count rate of a large-size GmAPD by 100× at an overvoltage of 2.5 V, compared with a fixed resistor-quenched GmAPD. Furthermore, at a photon pulse frequency of 1 MHz jitter time is reduced from 3.60 ns to 0.48 ns, and the afterpulsing probability is effectively mitigated from 30.88% to 8.58%.

Published in Applied Physics Express

ISSN: 1882-0778 (Print); 1882-0786 (Online)
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Physics
Website: https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1882-0786

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