Comparison of long-wave infrared quantum-dots-in-a-well and quantum-well focal plane arrays

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 512-516

  Andrews, Jonathan ^a   Restaino, Sergio R ^a   Vandervelde, Thomas E ^b,c   Brown, Jay S ^b   Sharma, Yagya D ^b   Lee, Sang Lee ^d   Teare, Scott W ^e   Reisinger, Axel ^f   Sundaram, Mani ^f   Krishna, Sanjay ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

^d Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

^e NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f QmagiQ LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared image sensors; Quantum dots (QDs); Quantum wells; Radiometry

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; FOCUSING; GALLIUM; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INDIUM ARSENIDE; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING; MOLECULAR BEAMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVES; WELLS;

ACTIVE REGIONS; BLACK BODIES; CAMERA SYSTEMS; COLLECTION EFFICIENCIES; DEVICE TEMPERATURES; FLIP CHIPS; INAS; INDIUM BUMPS; INFRARED FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; INFRARED IMAGE SENSORS; LONG-WAVE INFRARED; QUANTUM DOTS (QDS); QUANTUM WELLS; READ-OUT CIRCUITS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 62749136153     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2008.2011725     Document Type: Article

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