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Oxide-bias Measurements in the Silicon Photodiode Self-calibration Technique

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In this article, it has been shown that it is necessary to restrict the applied bias voltage to the very minimum necessary to produce photocurrent saturation, otherwise non-reversible degradation of quantum efficiency may occur.
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Oxide-bias measurement techniques to determine front-surface recombination losses in the silicon photodiode self-calibration technique have been investigated. With the water-drop method it has been shown necessary to restrict the applied bias voltage to the very minimum necessary to produce photocurrent saturation, otherwise non-reversible degradation of quantum efficiency may occur. The corona technique has been found to give satisfactory results only on initial application, as a drastic increase in front-region recombination loss is produced.

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Spectral response self-calibration and interpolation of silicon photodiodes.

TL;DR: The possibility of interpolating the internal quantum efficiency of silicon photodiodes using a model with three adjustable parameters is investigated, and an insignificant difference was observed at 677 nm.
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Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants

TL;DR: Recent developments in the techniques for making precision measurements and their use in the determination of the fundamental constants are reviewed and the relevance of precision measurements to tests of general relativity is briefly discussed.
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Elimination of interface recombination in oxide passivated silicon p + n photodiodes by storage of negative charge on the oxide surface

TL;DR: The use of tin oxide, condensed water vapor, and water drop electrodes on the oxide surface as well as corona charging of the surface are compared in their ability to repel minority carriers from recombination sites at the oxide-silicon interface without compromising the optical properties of the photodiode.
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Silicon photodiode absolute spectral response self-calibration using a filtered tungsten source.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method of extending the silicon photodiode absolute spectral response self-calibration techniques to non-laser wavelengths using a tungsten source filtered with narrow well-characterized interference filters is described.
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