With increasing biasing voltage of a photodiode, the photocurrent magnitude :

Identify the operation performed by the circuit given below :

Take the breakdown voltage of the
zener diode used in the given circuit as 6V.
For the input voltage shown in figure below,
the time variation of the output voltage is:
(Graphs drawn are schematic and not to scale)

If a semiconductor photodiode can detect a photon with a maximum wavelength of 400 nm, then its band gap energy is :

Planck’s constant h = 6.63 $$ \times $$ 10^–34 J.s. Speed of light c = 3 $$ \times $$ 10⁸ m/s