Review of the state of infrared detectors for astronomy in retrospect of the June 2002 workshop on scientific detectors for astronomy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 839-852

  Finger, Gert ^a   Beletic, James W ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

2K 2K; Astronomy; Dark current; Glow; HgCdTe; Infrared detector; InSb; Readout noise; Sampling technique; Si:As

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; INTERFEROMETRY; LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY;

FOCAL PLANE TECHNOLOGY;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0037620635     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.462593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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