S. Ahmed, Jiyuan Zheng, Yaohua Tan, J. Campbell, Avik W. Ghosh
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Abstract
Superior performance of digital alloy APDs is attributed to the formation of "minigaps" in the material band-structure. However, no improvement is observed in dilute nitride APDs in presence of minigaps. We propose criteria which can judge the effectiveness of these minigaps.