Drifts exhibited by cryogenically cooled InSb infrared filtered detectors and their importance to the ATSR-2 and Landsat-5 Earth observation missions

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 4181-4185

  Theocharous, Evangelos ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; COOLING; CRYOGENICS; EARTH (PLANET); INFRARED DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS; VACUUM;

DEWAR VACUUM; DRIFTS; EARTH OBSERVATION; SPECTRAL RESPONSIVITY;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

ANTIMONY; INDIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FREEZING; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SPACE FLIGHT;

ANTIMONY; ARTIFACTS; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FREEZING; INDIUM; SPACECRAFT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 22944439715     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.004181     Document Type: Article

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