VBPW34x/VB104x Series High-Speed PIN Photodiodes

Vishay Semiconductor's VBPW34x and VBP104x series are high-speed SMD PIN photodiodes with gull wing and reverse gull wing packages in clear epoxy and daylight blocking filtered versions. The eight devices are optimized for smoke detection, detectors in light barriers, and data transmission in a wide range of consumer and industrial applications.

The VBPW34x series photodiodes features a large optical sensitive area of 7.5 mm² that provides a high output signal of 55 μA typical at an illumination condition of 1 mW/cm² at 950 nm and 5 V reverse bias. The VBP104x series device offers a smaller optical sensitive area of 4.4 mm² that provides an output signal of 35 μA and 30% lower capacitance. The device's high linearity enables reliable operation over the temperature range of -40°C to 100°C. 

These high-speed photodiodes offer fast 100 ns rise and fall time, low dark current of 2 nA, and a wide angle of half sensitivity of ±65°. The devices’ surface-mount packages measure 6.4 mm by 3.9 mm with profiles of 1.2 mm.