Progress towards high-performance thermopile imaging arrays

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4369, Issue , 2001, Pages 350-354

  Foote, Marc C ^a   Gaalema, Stephen ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Y Media Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Array; Detector; Imaging; Infrared; Thermopile; Uncooled

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING; PERFORMANCE; RADIOMETRY; READOUT SYSTEMS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; THERMOPILES;

JOHNSON NOISE; NIGHT VISION; READOUT NOISE; TEMPERATURE STABILIZATION; THERMOPILE IMAGING ARRAYS;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0035760434     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.445337     Document Type: Article

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