ZnO subwavelength wires for fast-response midinfrared detection

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 21808-21812

  Dai, Wei ^a   Yang, Qing ^a   Gu, Fuxing ^a   Tong, Limin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WIRE;

FAST RESPONSE; INCIDENT LIGHT; MID-INFRARED DETECTION; MIDINFRARED; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; SUB-WAVELENGTH WIRES; THERMAL DETECTION; ZNO WIRES;

ZINC OXIDE;

ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; PHOTON; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOT TEMPERATURE; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCERS; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 72449139549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021808     Document Type: Article

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