High energy proton and alpha radiation effects on GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well infrared photodetctors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 43, Issue 6 PART 1, 1996, Pages 3012-3018

  Khanna, S M ^a   Liu, H C ^a   Wilson, P H ^a   Li, L ^b   Buchanan, M ^b  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PARTICLES; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; PROTONS; RADIATION DAMAGE; RADIATION HARDENING; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

DARK CURRENTS; QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS (QWIP);

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0030368620     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.556899     Document Type: Article

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