Active THz imaging and explosive detection with uncooled antenna-coupled microbolometer arrays

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8023, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Meilhan, J ^a   Dupont, B ^a   Goudon, V ^d   Lasfargues, G ^a   Lalanne Der, J ^a   Nguyen, D T ^a   Ouvrier Buffet, J L ^a   Pocas, S ^a   Maillou, T ^b   Cathabard, O ^c   Barbieri, S ^c   Simoens, F ^a  

^a CEA LETI   (France)

^b CEA LE RIPAULT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; Array; CMOS; Detection; Explosives; QCL; Reflection; THz; Uncooled antenna coupled microbolometers

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; CMOS; QCL; THZ; UNCOOLED;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; BOLOMETERS; DETECTORS; EXPLOSIVES DETECTION; INFRARED DETECTORS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; VANADIUM;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 80052783999     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.883898     Document Type: Conference Paper

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