640 x486 long-wavelength two-color GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well infrared photodetector (QWIP) focal plane array camera

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 963-971

  Gunapala, Sarath D ^a,b   Bandara, Sumith V ^a,c   Singh, A ^a,d   Liu, John K ^a,b   Rafol, Sir B ^a,c   Luong, E M ^a,d   Mumolo, Jason M ^a,b   Tran, Nhan Q ^a,c   Ting, David Z Y ^a,d   Vincent, J D ^a,b   Shott, Craig A ^a,c   Long, J ^a,d   Van Le, Paul D ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dualband infrared; Focal plane arrays; Gallium arsenide; Large format imaging arrays; Long wavelength infrared; Quantum well infrared photodetectors; Target discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012814134     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.841227     Document Type: Article

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