Modeling of the hysteretic metal-insulator transition in a vanadium dioxide infrared detector

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2582-2588

  De Almeida, Luiz Alberto Luz ^a   Deep, Gurdip Singh ^a   Lima, Antonio Marcus Nogueira ^a   Neff, Helmut ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Accommodation process; Composite medium; Effective medium approximation; Hysteresis model; Infrared imaging; Major loop; Metal insulator transition; Microbolometer; Minor loop; Percolation; Phase transition; Sensor; Thermal hysteresis; Vanadium dioxide

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INFRARED IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION; OPTICAL SENSORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); PHASE TRANSITIONS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS; VOLUME FRACTION;

METALLIC MICROCRYSTALS; MICROBOLOMETER; SEMICONDUCTING MICROCRYSTALS; VANADIUM DIOXIDE THIN FILM;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0036811360     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1501095     Document Type: Article

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