Midwave thermal infrared detection using semiconductor selective absorption

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 22833-22841

  Shea, Ryan P ^a   Gawarikar, Anand S ^a   Talghader, Joseph J ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; INFRARED RADIATION;

ALTERNATIVE METHODS; LEAD SELENIDE; MIDWAVE INFRARED; NOISE SOURCE; NONUNIFORM; OPTICAL CAVITIES; PLASMONIC STRUCTURES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SELECTIVE ABSORPTION; SPECTRAL ABSORPTIONS; SPECTRALLY SELECTIVE DEVICES; THERMAL DETECTORS; THERMAL EMISSION BANDS; THERMAL INFRARED;

ABSORPTION;

EID: 78149383911     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022833     Document Type: Article

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