Sub-wavelength bolometers: Uncooled platinum wires as infrared sensors

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8721-8727

  Renoux, Pauline ^a   Ægir Jónsson, Sigurdur ^a   Klein, Levente J ^b   Hamann, Hendrik F ^b   Ingvarsson, Snorri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; INFRARED DETECTORS; INFRARED IMAGING; PLATINUM;

BLACKBODY SOURCES; DETECTIVITY; FAST RESPONSE TIME; INFRA-RED SENSOR; LOW POWER; NUMERICAL ESTIMATION; OPERATING PARAMETERS; PLATINUM WIRE; RESPONSE TIME; RESPONSIVITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THERMAL IMAGING DEVICES; UNCOOLED; WIRE LENGTH; WIRE SIZE;

WIRE;

PLATINUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; THERMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; PLATINUM; THERMOGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 79955377877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.008721     Document Type: Article

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