A longwave infrared focal plane array enhanced by backside-configured plasmonic structures

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 745-748

  Vaillancourt, Jarrod ^a   Mojaverian, Neda ^a,b   Lu, Xuejun ^a,c  

^a Applied NanoFemto Technologies   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

Author keywords

Backside configured plasmonic structure; Focal plane array (FPA); Longwave infrared (LWIR); Noise equivalent temperature difference ( rm NE Delta rm T ); Plasmonic enhancement

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DETECTORS; PHOTONS;

BLACKBODY TEMPERATURES; LONGWAVE INFRARED; NOISE EQUIVALENT TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; STANDARD DEVIATION;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84897469556     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2014.2303118     Document Type: Article

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