A broadband focal plane array camera for real-time thz imaging applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1733-1740

  Trichopoulos, Georgios C ^a   Mosbacker, H Lee ^b   Burdette, Don ^b   Sertel, Kubilay ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

^b Traycer Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Focal plane arrays; heterostructure backward diodes; quasi optical imaging; tHz imaging

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PIXELS; SENSORS;

BACKWARD DIODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING TOOLS; FOCAL PLANE ARRAY CAMERA; MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; QUASI-OPTICAL IMAGING; SUB-MILLIMETER RESOLUTIONS; THZ IMAGING;

FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS;

EID: 84876014878     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2242829     Document Type: Article

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