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# Thread: this looks amazing! have you been doing

Category: **ℹ️ - Information**
Parent channel: **#general**
Thread ID: `1437880389090676846`

Messages: **13**

## message-1437898158666547390

**2025-11-11T20:13:55.882+00:00 — Ethan Mahintorabi (@ethanmahintorabi)**

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- Nickname: Ethan Mahintorabi
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- https://discord.com/channels/1361349522684510449/1361349523724570941/1437880389090676846
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## message-1437898163095736340

**2025-11-11T20:13:56.938+00:00 — Ethan Mahintorabi (@ethanmahintorabi)**

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- Author ID: `1437714127744401431`
- Nickname: Ethan Mahintorabi
- User name: ethanmahintorabi
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I have not done that yet, but essentially from the research I've done you model the diode as a pulsed current source.

Where the current is I = Responsivity_curve * Light_intensity_in_watts/m^2 * Area of photodiode
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## message-1437898542269075518

**2025-11-11T20:15:27.34+00:00 — Ethan Mahintorabi (@ethanmahintorabi)**

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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2863350/
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## message-1437898884180611226

**2025-11-11T20:16:48.858+00:00 — Ethan Mahintorabi (@ethanmahintorabi)**

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## message-1437899031430037514

**2025-11-11T20:17:23.965+00:00 — Ethan Mahintorabi (@ethanmahintorabi)**

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- Author ID: `1437714127744401431`
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I think the real answer is though unless you test it, it's all just fake numbers
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## message-1437899140289003652

**2025-11-11T20:17:49.919+00:00 — Ethan Mahintorabi (@ethanmahintorabi)**

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I think the amount of testing I want to do is just see how much signal I can get out at different magnitudes of current
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## message-1437899222690168915

**2025-11-11T20:18:09.565+00:00 — Ethan Mahintorabi (@ethanmahintorabi)**

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- Author ID: `1437714127744401431`
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Otherwise #yolo
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## message-1437904956001620101

**2025-11-11T20:40:56.493+00:00 — BreakingTaps (@polyfractal)**

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makes sense, cheers for the details! excited to see this thing taped out 🙂

Do you have plans for packaging, or just setting it up on a prober for testing?
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## message-1437936247531245579

**2025-11-11T22:45:16.975+00:00 — Tim 'mithro' Ansell (@mithro_)**

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@BreakingTaps / @Ethan Mahintorabi - Is this something you can simulate with TCAD or Emag simulation that gdsfactory has?
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## message-1437953593792532652

**2025-11-11T23:54:12.646+00:00 — Ethan Mahintorabi (@ethanmahintorabi)**

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I'm not familiar enough with TCAD and what not. I don't know the answer
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## message-1437953819131646034

**2025-11-11T23:55:06.371+00:00 — Ethan Mahintorabi (@ethanmahintorabi)**

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@BreakingTaps I'm still trying to figure out how to package it. I really don't have much equipment to test anything. I would ideally like to do chip on board, but without the glue blob
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## message-1437953938673635441

**2025-11-11T23:55:34.872+00:00 — Ethan Mahintorabi (@ethanmahintorabi)**

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If you're interested or know anyone interested would love to work with people on making it happen
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**2025-11-12T18:14:53.533+00:00 — BreakingTaps (@polyfractal)**

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Will think on it! like 6 months ago I could have offered my shop services and a janky DIY wafer prober, but unfortunately I moved recently and am now shop-less 😢
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