III-nitride heterostructure layered tunnel barriers for a tunable hyperspectral detector

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 724-729

  Bell, L Douglas ^a   Tripathi, Neeraj ^b   Grandusky, J R ^b   Jindal, Vibhu ^b   Shahedipour Sandvik, F Shadi ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric films; Transducers; Tunneling; Ultraviolet detectors

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CHARGED PARTICLES; CUBIC BORON NITRIDE; DETECTORS; ELECTRONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NITRIDES; PIXELS; TUNNELS; WASTEWATER;

BARRIER HEIGHT (BH); HETERO STRUCTURES; HETEROSTRUCTURES; HYPER-SPECTRAL; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE (HSI); III NITRIDES; INFRARED (IR) WAVELENGTHS; PHOTO EXCITED ELECTRONS; PHOTON WAVELENGTH; SPECTRAL CHANNELS; TUNNEL BARRIERS; ULTRAVIOLET (UV);

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 44649179269     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.923180     Document Type: Article

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