Corrugated quantum-well infrared photodetector focal plane arrays

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1255-1264

  Choi, Kwong Kit ^a   Forrai, David P ^b   Endres, Darrel W ^b   Sun, Jason ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b L 3 Cincinnati Electronics   (United States)

Author keywords

Focal plane array; Infrared detector; Quantum efficiency

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DETECTOR; COVER LAYERS; CUTOFF WAVELENGTHS; DETECTOR MATERIALS; DETECTOR MODELS; DETECTOR STRUCTURE; DOPING DENSITIES; FINAL STATE; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; LARGE DETECTORS; LARGE-FORMAT FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; LONG-WAVELENGTH INFRARED; PIXEL GEOMETRY; QUANTUM WELL; QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS; READOUT ELECTRONICS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

DETECTORS; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; FOCUSING; INFRARED DETECTORS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 70349440541     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2026185     Document Type: Article

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