Investigation of a multistack voltage-tunable four-color quantum-well infrared photodetector for mid- and long-wavelength infrared detection

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1685-1692

  Jiang, Xudong ^a   Li, Sheng S ^a   Tidrow, Meimei Z ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; READOUT SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TERMINALS (ELECTRIC); THERMAL EFFECTS;

LONG WAVELENGTH INFRARED; MID WAVELENGTH INFRARED; QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR; READOUT INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0033309118     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.798092     Document Type: Article

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