UV detectors and focal plane array imagers based on AlGaN p-i-n photodiodes

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 251-260

  Long, J P ^a   Varadaraajan, S ^a   Matthews, J ^a   Schetzina, J F ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

UV detector; UV digital camera; UV focal plane array

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346741351     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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