A CMOS Uncooled Heat-Balancing Infrared Imager

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 527-535

  Liu, Chien Chang ^a,b,c,d   Mastrangelo, Carlos H ^a,c,e,f  

^a The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f FORD MOTOR COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Thermal imager

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347074680     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.839912     Document Type: Article

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