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Why are photodiodes reverse biased?

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When reverse biased, current will only flow through the photodiode with incident light creating photocurrent. The reverse bias causes the potential across the depletion region to increase and the width of the depletion region to increase. This is ideal for creating a large area to absorb the maximum amount of photons.

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