Transient response in doped germanium photoconductors under very low background operation

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1597-1604

  Church, S E ^a,b   Price, M C ^a   Haegel, N M ^c   Griffin, M J ^a   Ade, P A R ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; SPECTROMETERS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DOPED GERMANIUM PHOTOCONDUCTORS; ILLUMINATION STEP SIZE; LONG WAVELENGTH SPECTROMETERS; NONLINEAR EFFECTS; PHOTON FLUX; SPONTANEOUS SPIKING; TRANSIENT RESPONSE;

PHOTOCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0030120748     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.001597     Document Type: Article

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