Recent developments and applications of quantum well infrared photodetector focal plane arrays

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 150-163

  Gunapala, S D ^a   Bandara, S V ^a   Liu, J K ^a   Luong, E M ^a   Rafol, S B ^a   Mumolo, J M ^a   Ting, D Z ^a   Bock, J J ^a   Ressler, M E ^a   Werner, M W ^a   Levan, P D ^b   Chehayeb, R ^c   Kukkonen, C A ^c   Levy, M ^d   Levan, P ^d   Fauci, M A ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c QWIP Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e OmniCorder Technologies Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Focal plane arrays; Infrared detectors; Long wavelength infrared; Multi quantum well; Multi colour

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000281596     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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