Novel ultra-sensitive detectors in the 10-50 μm wavelength range

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 8411-8423

  Ueda, Takeji ^a,b   Komiyama, Susumu ^b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Charge sensitive infrared phototransistor (CSIP); Far infrared detector; Photon counter; Single photon detector; Terahertz detector; Ultra sensitive detector

Indexed keywords

CHARGE-SENSITIVE INFRARED PHOTOTRANSISTOR (CSIP); FAR-INFRARED DETECTOR; PHOTON-COUNTER; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; TERAHERTZ DETECTORS; ULTRA SENSITIVES;

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PHOTOTRANSISTORS;

DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; INFRARED RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

INFRARED RAYS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERAHERTZ IMAGING; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77958111651     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100908411     Document Type: Article

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