9 μm cutoff 640×512 pixel GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum well infrared photodetector hand-held camera

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4721, Issue , 2002, Pages 144-150

  Gunapala, S D ^a   Bandara, S V ^a   Liu, J K ^a   Rafol, S B ^a   Shott, C A ^b   Jones, R ^b   Laband, S ^b   Woolaway II, J ^b   Fastenau, J M ^c   Liu, A K ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Indigo Systems Corporation   (United States)

^c IQE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Focal plane arrays; Hand held camera; Long wavelength infrared (LWIR); QWIPs

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TEMPERATURE;

BACKGROUND LIMITED PERFORMANCE; FOCAL PLANE ARRAY; HAND-HELD CAMERA; NOISE EQUIVALENT DIFFERENTIAL TEMPERATURE; QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0036912744     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478841     Document Type: Conference Paper

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