Long life, high performance anti-reflection treatment for HgCdTe infrared focal plane arrays

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6940, Issue , 2008, Pages

  MacLeod, Bruce D ^a   Hobbs, Douglas S ^a  

^a TelAztec LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti reflection; Coatings; Effective index; HgCdTe; LWIR; Microstructures; Motheye; Radiation hardened

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BANDWIDTH; CLADDING (COATING); COATINGS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; FOCUSING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT; LIGHT REFLECTION; LITHOGRAPHY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTITASKING; PIGMENTS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; RADIATION; REFLECTION; STRESS RELIEF; SULFATE MINERALS; SURFACE POTENTIAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TREATMENT; SURFACES; TECHNOLOGY; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMAL SPRAYING; THICK FILMS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS; WINDOWS;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; (ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC) STRESS; (P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; ANTIREFLECTION (AR); AR COATINGS; BACKSIDE ILLUMINATED; CYCLING TESTS; DETECTOR NOISE; DUAL BANDS; HGCDTE FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; HIGH PERFORMANCE; IMAGE CONTRASTS; IMAGING OPTICS; INFRARED FOCAL PLANE ARRAY (IRFPA); INFRARED REGIONS; INFRARED TECHNOLOGIES; LARGE FORMATS; LASER-DAMAGE THRESHOLDS; LIGHT LOSSES; LONG LIFE; LONG WAVE INFRARED REGION (LWIR); PROTON RADIATIONS; RADIATION ENVIRONMENTS; RADIATION EXPOSURES; RADIATION HARDNESS; SCATTERED LIGHT; SENSITIVE INSTRUMENTS; SIGNAL LOSSES; SPACE BASED; SPACE QUALIFICATION; SPACE TRACKING AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (STSS); SURFACE FLATNESS; SURFACE RELIEFS; TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS; THIN FILM COATINGS; THIN-FILM MATERIALS; TRANSMISSION DATA; WIDE BANDWIDTH; WIDE SPECTRAL RANGE;

ARGON;

EID: 45549103375     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.778736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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