**Meet the editor**

Dr. Ilgu Yun received the B.S. degree in the electrical engineering from the Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1990, and his M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering, from Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He has experienced as a Research Fellow in Microelectronics Research Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Senior Research

Staff in Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in Korea. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. His research interests include Material Characterization and Modeling and Simulation of Semiconductor Processes, Devices, and IC modules. He is currently a Senior Member of IEEE.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Toshiaki Kagawa

**Electrode 105**

**Technique 133**

Suslyakov and A. L. Aseev

Turrión and Alicia Pons Aglio

**Section 1 Fundamental Physics and Physical Design 1**

Chapter 1 **Two-Photon Absorption in Photodiodes 3**

**Multiplication Regions 27**

**Section 2 Fabrication and Measurements 103**

Kumar Dhungel and Junsin Yi

Viacheslav Kholodnov and Mikhail Nikitin

Chapter 3 **Fabrication of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell with Emitter**

Chapter 4 **LWIR Photodiodes and Focal Plane Arrays Based on Novel**

**Diffusion, SiNx Surface Passivation and Screen Printing of**

**HgCdTe/CdZnTe/GaAs Heterostructures Grown by MBE**

Chapter 5 **Photodiodes as Optical Radiation Measurement Standards 173**

V. V. Vasiliev, V. S. Varavin, S. A. Dvoretsky, I. M. Marchishin, N. N. Mikhailov, A. V. Predein, I. V. Sabinina, Yu. G. Sidorov, A. O.

Ana Luz Muñoz Zurita, Joaquín Campos Acosta, Alejandro Ferrero

S. M. Iftiquar, Youngwoo Lee, Minkyu Ju, Nagarajan Balaji, Suresh

Chapter 2 **Physical Design Fundamentals of High-Performance Avalanche Heterophotodiodes with Separate Absorption and**
