Photoconductors and Photoconductive Gain

If you've felt like the content here has been helpful, please consider donating to UCI with a mention of this channel: https://give.uci.edu/ Photoconductors are a really cool way of sensing incoming light, and have some advantages over their more traditional photodiode counterparts. In this video, I explain why, and what the responsivity of a photoconductor depends on. This is part of my graduate series on optoelectronics / photonics, and is based primarily on Coldren's book on Lasers as well as graduate-level coursework I have taken in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. Hope you found this video helpful, please post in the comments below anything I can do to improve future videos, or suggestions you have for future videos.