Quantum cascade detectors

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1039-1052

  Giorgetta, Fabrizio R ^a   Baumann, Esther ^b   Graf, Marcel ^c   Yang, Quankui ^d   Manz, Christian ^d   Köhler, Klaus ^d   Beere, Harvey E ^e   Ritchie, David A ^e   Linfield, Edmund ^f   Davies, Alexander G ^f   Fedoryshyn, Yuriy ^g   Jäckel, Heinz ^g   Fischer, Milan ^g   Faist, Jérôme ^g   Hofstetter, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^g ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

High speed semiconductor photodetectors; Intersubband photodetectors; Quantum cascade detector

Indexed keywords

HIGH-SPEED; INTER-SUBBAND; QUANTUM CASCADE DETECTOR; QUANTUM CASCADE DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTODETECTORS;

DETECTORS; ELECTRON MOBILITY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PROFITABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; THERMOANALYSIS;

QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 77950011558     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2017929     Document Type: Article

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