Design and control of a thermal stabilizing system for a MEMS optomechanical uncooled infrared imaging camera

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 132-142

  Choi, Jongeun ^a   Yamaguchi, Joji ^a   Morales, Simon ^a   Horowitz, Roberto ^a   Zhao, Yang ^a   Majumdar, Arunava ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared image detectors; LQGR control; MEMS IR sensors; NETD; Stochastic modeling; Temperature control

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CAMERAS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; INFRARED DETECTORS; INFRARED IMAGING; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

STOCHASTIC MODELING;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0037446468     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-4247(03)00004-9     Document Type: Article

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