Room Temperature Photon Detectors

Antoni Rogalski is a professor at the Institute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. He is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of infrared (IR) optoelectronics. He has made pioneering contributions in the areas of theory, design, and technology of different types of IR detectors. In 1997, Professor Rogalski received an award from the Foundation for Polish Science for his achievements in the study of ternary alloy systems for infrared detectors. Professor Rogalski is an active member of the international technical community – member of the editorial boards of several international journals; chair and co-chair, organizer, and member of scientific committees of many national and international conferences on optoelectronic devices and materials sciences. In 2022, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by the President of the Republic of Poland. Weida Hu is currently the head of the State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics and a full professor (Principal Investigator) at the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he focuses on the fabrication and characterization of infrared photodetectors, photodiodes, phototransistors, and their smart chips. His papers have been recognized as one of "China's Top Ten Optics Advances" three times and one of "China's Top Ten Semiconductor Research Advances" twice. Professor Hu has been selected as the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2017, the China Youth Science and Technology Award in 2019, the Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship of UK in 2017. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Small, as the Associate Editor of Infrared Physics & Technology, the Executive Editor of Optical and Quantum Electronics, the chair of the Optoelectronic Devices Committee of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, amongst others. Piotr Martyniuk has been holding professor position at Institute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology (MUT) in Warsaw where he has been leading the Solid State Physics Department. He closely cooperates with KIND Lab in Ohio State University (OSU), Microelectronics Research Group in The University of Western Australia and Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, amongst others. Within his research activities he was awarded by the Polish Academy of Science - Dean of Division Four: Engineering Sciences for the research on the “Barrier IR detectors as a new generation HOT sensors” (2016). He was awarded by Minister of Defense (President of Republic of Poland honourable patronage) for the best completed project within the defense area “ HOT IR detectors with short response time” (2017). In 2021 he was awarded with 10 months Fulbright scholarship in OSU, KIND Laboratory. Since 2022 he has been holding a Visiting Professor position at SITP where he has been dealing mostly with APDs and SPDs. The main subject of his research is AIIBVI - HgCdTe, AIIIBV InAsSb and T2SLs IR detectors.

Preface

1. Optical detector characterization

2. Focal plane arrays

3. Ultraviolet photodetectors

4. Visible photodetectors

5. HOT infrared detectors

6. Room temperature direct terahertz detectors

7. Avalanche photodiodes from bulk to 2D materials

Index