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   Phototransistors, Detectors

A photodiode is a semiconductor diode that functions as a photodetector. Photodiodes are packaged with either a window or optical fibre connection, in order to let in the light to the sensitive part of the device. They may also be used without a window to detect vacuum UV or X-rays.

A phototransistor is in essence nothing more than a bipolar transistor that is encased in a transparent case so that light can reach the base-collector junction. The phototransistor works like a photodiode, but with a much higher sensitivity for light, because the electrons that are generated by photons in the base-collector junction are injected into the base, and this current is then amplified by the transistor operation. However, a phototransistor has a slower response time than a photodiode.



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Optical Fiber Sensors, Volume IV: Applications, Analysis, and Future Trends
Brian Culshaw and John P. Dakin

Excerpt - page 95: "... small capillary glass tube fitted with an LED and a phototransistor detector to form a multiple reflecting optical device. When the capillary ..."
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Electronic Portable Instruments
Halit Eren

Excerpt - page 93: "... emitted light passes through a transparent dielectric that activates a phototransistor detector . The voltage output of the phototransistor is proportional to ..."
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Alarm Sensor and Security
Thomas Petruzzellis

Excerpt - page 48: "... Circuits Fig. 1-53 Encoders and interface. digital pulses by the phototransistor detector. The ORE has no contacts or wipers that create electrical ..."
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Chemical Sensors in Oceanography (Ocean Science and Technology)
Mark S. Varney

Excerpt - page 59: "... short-term fluctuations and long-term drift of the light source. These detectors are generally phototransistors. 2.3 CHEMISTRY 2.3.1 Colorimetric Chemical Reactions Among the large variety ..."
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Building Robot Drive Trains (Robot DNA Series)
Dennis Clark and Michael Owings

Excerpt - page 325: "... you have response problems. Circuit B provides support for the phototransistor detector. Use Circuit C if your detector uses a PNP phototransistor. ..."
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The Forrest Mims Circuit Scrapbook
Forrest Mims

Excerpt - page 41: "... the circuit very low, but reduces the effectiveness of a phototransistor detector because its response time is slower than that of a ..."
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Foundations of Electronics: Circuits & Devices Conventional Flow
Russell L. Meade

Excerpt - page 1061: "... diode as a source of light and a photodiode (or phototransistor) as the detector. The system works much like an opto-isolator except that light ..."
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Electronics For Dummies
Gordon McComb and Earl Boysen

Excerpt - page 113: "... sensor uses an LED that emits infrared light and a detector, such as a phototransistor, that generates current when infrared light strikes it. When someone ..."
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Electrical Estimating Pal: The Professional's Choice (Pal Pocket Reference Series) (Pal Pocket Reference Series)
Paul Rosenberg

Excerpt - page 10: "... fuses, 15 amp max. 0.12 N/A Infrared diodes 0.12 N/A Phototransistor detectors 0.14 N/A Optoisolators 0.14 N/A LEDs 0.11 N/A Plasma display, ..."
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Troubleshooting & Repairing Consumer Electronics Without a Schematic
Homer L. Davidson and Homer Davidson

Excerpt - page 398: "... to the infrared receiver and system control circuits. The infrared detector picks up the remote transmitter's signal, which is amplified and decoded within the IC receiver circuits. Sometimes the infrared detector or phototransistor and IC provide signal directly to the IC microprocessor or ..."
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Introduction to Mechatronics & Measurement Systems
David G. Alciatore, Michael B. Histand, and David Alciatore

Excerpt - page 79: "... package _J t t axis of rotation of disk t detector (phototransistor) side In order for the sensor to function properly, we ..."
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Sensor Technology Handbook
Jon S Wilson

Excerpt - page 316: "... every well-established thermometer has also been optimized as an infrared detector. Phototransistor Example The phototransistor is a device that operates by converting ..."
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123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius (TAB Robotics)
Myke Predko

Excerpt - page 134: "... Surface Opaque Barrier Preventing Direct Transmission of IR Light IR Phototransistor UIUWhite Surface Black Surface Figure 8-22 Infrared LED and phototransistor line detector operation phototransistor. A black surface tends to absorb infrared light ..."
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Industrial Automation: Circuit Design and Components
David W. Pessen

Excerpt - page 49: "... is concentrated, the air fairly clean, and the emitter and detector accurately aligned. Also, position sensing ... emitter (infrared LED) and detector (phototransistor) prealigned within a sealed unit. However, the opening between the ..."
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Build Your Own Test Equipment
Homer L. Davidson

Excerpt - page 144: "... Parts list Q1 SW1 PB1 LED1 Batt. Cabinet Misc. Infrared phototransistor detector, 276-142 or equiv. SPST toggle switch, 275-645 or equiv. 1 ..."
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Build Your Own Robot!
Karl Lunt

Excerpt - page 124: "... almost as easy. Simply open up one of the IR detector modules and replace the sensor ... to replace the IR detector's phototransistor. Begin by carefully opening the metal case and removing the ..."
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The Mechatronics Handbook
Robert H. Bishop

Excerpt - page 8: "... from left to right are a CdS photoresistor, a pyroelectric detector, a phototransistor, and a quadrant silicon photodiode containing four separate sensing elements. ..."
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Electronic Troubleshooting
Daniel R. Tomal, Neal S. Widmer, Daniel Tomal, and Neal Widmer

Excerpt - page 328: "... chamber. On the other side is a set of infrared detectors (usually phototransistors). When no drip is present, the light shines on the ..."
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Mobile Robotic Car Design (Tab Robotics)
Pushkin Kachroo and Patricia Mellodge

Excerpt - page 15: "... out IR light with a wavelength of 940 nm. The detector is located next to the emitter in the same package. The detector consists of a phototransistor that is turned on in the presence of IR light. ..."
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Flow Injection Analysis: Instrumentation and Applications
Marek Trojanowicz

Excerpt - page 2: "... on the utilisation of a single laser [10]. Flow-through photometric detectors for FIA can be made using optoelec- tronic components such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as light sources and photodiodes or phototransistors as detectors [11-29]. The commercially avail- able LEDs cover a ..."
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Ecological Comparisons of Sedimentary Shores (Ecological Studies)
K. Reise

Excerpt - page 88: "... phototransducer system consists of an infrared light-emitting diode and a phototransistor detector. The phototransistor detected variations in reflec- ..."
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Stochastic Resonance: Theory and Applications
Bruno Andō and S. Graziani

Excerpt - page 139: "... a first experimental validation of the theory developed, a coupled phototransistor detector/diode emitter, shown schematically in Figure 20, is investigated. The forcing ..."
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Computer Communications And Networks, 2nd Edition (Computer Systems S.)
J Freer

Excerpt - page 29: "... by 1996. Multimode, graded-index fibre, with low-cost lED sources and phototransistor detectors can achieve 600 Mbit/s over distances up to 5 km ..."
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Advanced Automotive Fault Diagnosis
Tom Denton

Excerpt - page 93: "... sensor and circuit shown in Figure 5.7 consists of a phototransistor as a detector and a light emitting diode light source. If the light ..."
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Micromechatronics: Modeling, Analysis, and Design with MATLAB
Victor Giurgiutiu and Sergey E. Lyshevski

Excerpt - page 784: "... a current to run from the collector to the emitter. Phototransistors perform in a similar way, ... usage of phototransistors is in emitter-detector switches. The emitter- detector is an optoelectronic sensor that senses ..."
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Modeling and Planning for Sensor Based Intelligent Robot Systems (Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, Vol 21)
Horst Bunke, Takeo Kanade, and Hartmut Noltemeier

Excerpt - page 328: "... horizontal plane using a rotating mirror and a set of phototransistor detectors at known positions. The light detection pulses from the phototransistors ..."
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Dynamic Aspects of Detonations (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics)
A. L. Kuhl, J. C. Leyer, A. A. Borisov, and W. A. Sirignano

Excerpt - page 367: "... The detonation velocity was monitored using an array of eight phototransistor detectors, connected in a four-channel com- puter scope with a total ..."
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Industrial Instrumentation: Principles and Design
Tattamangalam R. Padmanabhan

Excerpt - page 375: "... optical switch pair. The LED sources as well as the phototransistor detectors have rectangular apertures in front [See Figure 11.20 (a)]. A ..."
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Opto-Mechatronic Systems Handbook: Techniques and Applications
Hyungsuck Cho

Excerpt - page 60: "... system consists of an infrared light-emitting (LED) source and a phototransistor detector. The light beam generated by the infrared LED passes through ..."
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Analytical Instrumentation Handbook, Second Edition
Galen Wood Ewing

Excerpt - page 162: "... photometer system based on a light emitting diode source and phototransistor detector. The reagent concentration, pH, flow rate, reaction coil length and ..."
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Micro Total Analysis Systems 2000
Albert van den Berg, Wouter Olthuis, and Piet Bergveld

Excerpt - page 561: "... biochip with an array of DNA microprobes and 220 on-chip phototransistor detectors 161. There are however several key technologies to be resolved ..."
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Jane's Avionics 2005-06 (Jane's Avionics)
Edward Down

Excerpt - page 438: "... optical encoder which uses light emitting diode light sources and phototransistor detectors. A code disc is driven by the main shaft of ..."
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Optoelectronics, Fiber Optics, and Laser Cookbook
Thomas Petruzzellis

Excerpt - page 88: "... photointerruptor disk, and an IC light receiver consisting of a phototransistor or photodiode and an amplifier/signal ... digital pulses by the phototransistor detector inside the ORE. The ORE has no contacts or wipers ..."
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STIQUITO: Advanced Experiments with a Simple and Inexpensive Robot, Robot Kit Included
James M. Conrad and Jonathan W. Mills

Excerpt - page 170: "... MLED930 infrared-emitting diodes. The queen receives input from three MLD901 phototransistor detectors. These three detectors are connected to pins PCO- PC2. Figure ..."
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Physics of Semiconductor Devices
Simon M. Sze

Excerpt - page 700: "... 700 LED and Semiconductor Lasers opto-isolator, Fig. 18b, a phototransistor is used as the detector and the current transfer ratio can be 0.1:1. Figure 18c ..."
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Practical Electronics Handbook, Fifth Edition
Ian Sinclair

Excerpt - page 67: "... G Miscellaneous L RF power transistor N Photocoupler P Radiation detector (photodiode, phototransistor, etc.) Q Radiation generator R Control and switching device (such ..."
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