Space operation and performance of doped germanium photo-conducting detectors in the far infrared: Experience from the ISO LWS

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 157-176

  Swinyard, Bruce ^a   Clegg, Peter ^b   Leeks, Sarah ^b   Griffin, Matt ^b   Lim, Tanya ^c   Burgdorf, Martin ^c  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ISO Science Operations Centre   (Spain)

Author keywords

Infrared; Instrumentation; Space; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034409306     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008084116564     Document Type: Article

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