Looking for a photodiode with large surface area

Dec 11, 2007 2 Replies

Hi,



Does anyone know where I can get a photodiode with a relatively large surface area? Ideally something like this:



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[If you look in the top right part of the board you can see a pretty big photodiode just about the 14pin chip.]

Everything I've looked at so far is tiny. I need it to capture some fairly diffuse reflections from a modulated laser beam.



(Which is exactly what the diode in the picture is doing)



Dave


http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GFRC,GFRC:2006-50,GFRC:en&q=large+area+photodiode

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Digikey sells a wide range of photo diodes, including many larger than that. That one looks like a PDB-C107, PDB-C113, or PDB-C140 (optimized for photo conductive operation) or PDB-V104, PDB-V113 (optimized for photo-voltaic operation)

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Regards, John Popelish

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