Novel quantum well, quantum dot, and superlattice heterostructure based infrared detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7298, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ting, David Z Y ^a   Bandara, Sumith V ^a,e   Hill, Cory J ^a   Gunapala, Sarath D ^a   Chang, Yia Chung ^b,f   Liu, H C ^c   Song, C Y ^c   Soibel, Alexander ^a   Mumolo, Jason ^a   Nguyen, Jean ^a   Liu, John K ^a   Keo, Sam A ^a   Rafol, Sir B ^d   Blazejewski, E R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d Infravision Systems   (United States)

^e NIGHT VISION AND ELECTRONIC SENSORS DIRECTORATE   (United States)

^f RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Infrared; Intra subband; Photodetector; Quantum dot; Quantum well; QWIP; Superlattice; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

INFRARED; INTRA-SUBBAND; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM WELL; QWIP; TERAHERTZ;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; INFRARED DETECTORS; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SUPERLATTICES;

DETECTORS;

EID: 69949112833     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.818879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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