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Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (APDs) with response at 2μm have been developed in the antimonide material system. At 77K, the APDs demonstrated a dark count rate of 210kHz and an injection probability–avalanche probability product of 35% at 4.5V of overbias.
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Duerr et al. (2007) studied this question.
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