Advantages of quantum cascade detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6900, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gomez, A ^a,b   Carras, M ^a   Nedelcu, A ^a   Costard, E ^a   Marcadet, X ^a   Berger, V ^a,b  

^a ALCATEL THALES III V LAB   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Infrared detectors; Multiple quantum wells; QWIPs; Thermal imaging

Indexed keywords

INFRARED IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

INFRARED DETECTION; QUANTUM CASCADE DETECTORS; THERMAL IMAGERS;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 43249107840     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.754215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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