Mid- and far-infrared hybrid focal plane arrays for astronomy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3354, Issue , 1998, Pages 109-115

  Herter, Terry L ^a   Hayward, Thomas L ^a   Houck, James R ^a   Seib, David H ^b   Lin, Wen N ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Blocked impurity band; Detectors; Impurity band conduction; Infrared

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE ASTRONOMY; ANTI-REFLECTION; ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION; BLOCKED IMPURITY BAND; DESIGN FEATURES; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; DYNAMIC SWITCHING; FAR-INFRARED; GROUND BASED; IMPURITY BAND CONDUCTION; INFRARED; INTEGRATED CHARGE; INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; LINEAR OUTPUT; READ NOISE; RESPONSIVITY; TWO-STATE; WELL DEPTH;

ASTROPHYSICS; DETECTORS; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; PHOTOCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 60949105710     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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