Design of the stressed Ge:Ga far-infrared array for SIRTF

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3354, Issue , 1998, Pages 322-331

  Schnurr, Richard ^a   Thompson, Craig L ^a   Davis, James T ^a   Beeman, Jeffrey W ^b   Cadien, James ^a   Young, Erick T ^a   Haller, Eugene E ^b   Rieke, George H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detectors; Infrared; MIPS; SIRTF

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC POWER; FAR-INFRARED; FOCAL PLANE; INFRARED; LOW BACKGROUND; MIPS; READ NOISE; RESPONSIVITY; SIRTF;

ASTROPHYSICS; DETECTORS; FOCUSING; GALLIUM; GERMANIUM; PLASMA WAVES; SPACE FLIGHT;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 60949113102     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.317318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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