Infrared detectors and detector arrays

Medical Devices and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 37-1-37-26

  Norton, Paul ^a   Horn, Stuart ^a   Pellegrino, Joseph G ^a   Perconti, Philip ^a  

^a US Army Communications and Electronics Command   (United States)

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