QWIP characteristics, performance, advantages, opportunities, and issues

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3553, Issue , 1998, Pages 123-131

  Liu, H C ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Background limited; Detectivity; Imaging; Infrared; Photodetector; Quantum well

Indexed keywords

FERMI LEVEL; INFRARED DETECTORS; PHOTOCURRENTS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TEMPERATURE;

DETECTIVITY; ELECTRON INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0032404591     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.318095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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