Simplified QWIPs for low temperature and low background applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3379, Issue , 1998, Pages 268-273

  Tidrow, Meimei Z ^a   Beekman, Daniel W ^a   Kennerly, Stephen W ^a   Jiang, Xudong ^b   Li, Sheng S ^b   Singh, Anjali ^c   Dodd, Mark A ^d  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

BLIP temperatures; Conversion efficiency; Focal plane arrays; IR detectors; Low background; Low temperature operation; QWIP

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DETECTORS; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; FOCUSING; INFRARED DETECTORS; LOW TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; TARGETS;

BLIP TEMPERATURES; IR DETECTORS; LOW BACKGROUND; LOW TEMPERATURE OPERATION; QWIP;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 0141597094     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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