Testing of mid-infrared detector arrays for FORCAST

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5499, Issue , 2004, Pages 442-451

  Adams, Joseph D ^a   Herter, Terry L ^a   Keller, Luke D ^a,b   Gull, George E ^a   Pirger, Bruce ^a   Schoenwald, Justin ^a   Berthoud, Marc ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Blocked impurity band; Camera systems; Detectors; Impurity band conduction; Infrared

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION; BLOCKED IMPURITY BANDS; CAMERA SYSTEMS; IMPURITY BAND CONDUCTION;

ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; DETECTORS; FLUXES; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; IRRADIATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 10444264043     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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