Abstract
We demonstrate the first III-V avalanche photodiodes grown directly on silicon by heteroepitaxy. The InGaAs/InAlAs APD exhibits gain > 20, low dark current, quantum efficiency > 40%, and low excess noise (k value ~0.2).
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