Long-wavelength 640x484 GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs quantum well infrared photodetector focal plane array camera

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3061, Issue , 1997, Pages 722-727

  Gunapala, Sarath D ^a   Bandara, Sumith V ^a   Liu, John K ^a   Hong, Winn ^a   Sundaram, Mani ^a   Carralejo, Ronald J ^a,b   Shott, C A ^a,b   Maker, Paul D ^a   Muller, Richard E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Focal plane arrays; Gallium Arsenide (GaAs); Infrared (IR); Infrared imaging cameras; Intersubband transitions; Long wavelength Infrared (LWIR); Noise Equivalent Temperature difference (NE T); Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP)

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CAMERAS; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; FOCUSING; GALLIUM; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

FOCAL PLANE ARRAY CAMERAS; GAAS/ALGAAS; INFRARED (IR); INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; LONG WAVELENGTHS; LONG-WAVELENGTH INFRARED (LWIR); QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR (QWIP); QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 33646284358     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.280393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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