Sharp infrared eyes: The journey of QWIPs from concept to large inexpensive sensitive arrays in hand-held infrared cameras

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 271-282

  Gunapala, S ^a   Bandara, S ^a   Liu, J ^a   Sundaram, M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark current; Figures of merit; Focal plane arrays; Imaging camera; Light coupling; Quantum well infrared photodetectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000723976     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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