A 600-GHz CMOS focal-plane array for terahertz imaging applications

ESSCIRC 2008 - Proceedings of the 34th European Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 110-113

  Pfeiffer, Ullrich R ^a   Öjefors, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PIXELS;

ARRAY SIZES; BOND PADS; CIRCUIT TOPOLOGIES; CMOS PROCESSES; EQUIVALENT POWERS; FOCAL-PLANE ARRAYS; FULLY INTEGRATE; FULLY INTEGRATED; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; ON CHIPS; PIXEL SIZES; POWER DETECTIONS; RESPONSIVITY; ROOM TEMPERATURES; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ IMAGING;

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EID: 58149103258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2008.4681804     Document Type: Conference Paper

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