Demonstration of megapixel dual-band QWIP focal plane array

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 285-293

  Gunapala, Sarath D ^a   Bandara, Sumith V ^a   Liu, John K ^a   Mumolo, Jason M ^a   Ting, David Z ^a   Hill, Cory J ^a   Nguyen, Jean ^a   Simolon, Brian ^b   Woolaway, James ^b   Wang, Samuel C ^c   Li, Weiping ^c   Levan, Paul D ^d   Tidrow, Meimei Z ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b FLIR Systems Inc   (United States)

^c GCS Inc   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared detectors; Infrared imaging; Quantum well devices

Indexed keywords

DETECTOR ARRAYS; DIRECT INJECTION; DUAL-BAND; IMAGING ARRAYS; INDIUM BUMPS; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; LONGWAVE INFRARED; MEGA-PIXEL; MIDWAVE INFRARED BANDS; MULTIQUANTUM WELLS; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PIXEL PITCH; PRELIMINARY DATA; QUANTUM WELL DEVICE; QUANTUM WELL DEVICES; READOUT INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; FOCUSING; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DETECTORS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PIXELS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 77949482168     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2024550     Document Type: Article

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