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The theory of photoconduction through the reverse-biased p-n junction in semiconductors is developed without the customary assumption that carrier generation in the junction depletion layer is negligible. Different from previous theories, the more general treatment leads to a voltage dependence of the photocurrent and its spectral distribution. When the incident light beam is modulated at frequencies comparable to the transit time through the depletion layer, a phase shift between the photon flux and photocurrent is noticed and transit-time rectification occurs.
Wolfgang W. Gärtner (Thu,) studied this question.