Numerical simulation of crosstalk in reduced pitch HgCdTe photon-trapping structure pixel arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 14712-14727

  Schuster, Jonathan ^a   Bellotti, Enrico ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY COMPOUNDS; PHOTONS; PIXELS;

BROADBAND OPERATION; DETECTOR ARRAYS; HGCDTE; OPTICAL CROSS-TALK; PERIODIC ARRAYS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PIXEL ARRAYS; SMALL PITCH;

CROSSTALK;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; TELLURIUM;

ARTIFACT; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ARTIFACTS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TELLURIUM;

EID: 84879407329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.014712     Document Type: Article

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