Recent development and status of amorphous silicon microbolometers

Bandaoti Guangdian/Semiconductor Optoelectronics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 172-177

  Gong, Yu Guang ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Jiang, Ya Dong ^a   Chen, Chao ^a   Cai, Hai Hong ^a   Li, Zhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; Characteristics; Development tendency; Focal plane array; Mircobolometer

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749096647     PISSN: 10015868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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