Room Temperature IR Photodetectors

Mercury Cadmium Telluride: Growth, Properties and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 513-537

  Piotrowski, J ^a,b   Piotrowski, A ^a  

^a VIGO System SA   (Poland)

^b LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

3D high temperature photodetector concept; BLIP detector performance ultimate goal in IR detector development; Detector performance limits; HgCdTe device technologies elimination of cooling requirements of IR photodetectors in MW and LW range of IR spectrum; IR photodetector performance, increasing apparent "optical" size of detector; Near unity quantum efficiency, achieved in well designed IR photodetectors of any type; PEM detectors, magnetoconcentration detectors and Dember effect detectors for uncooled IR photodetectors; Photoconductor response time determined by recombination time; Photodetector current responsivity determined by quantum efficiency; Room temperature IR photodetectors

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM ALLOYS; EFFICIENCY; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; MERCURY AMALGAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOELECTROMAGNETIC EFFECTS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS;

DEMBER EFFECTS; DETECTOR DEVELOPMENT; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; DEVICE TECHNOLOGIES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IR PHOTODETECTORS; RECOMBINATION TIME; RESPONSIVITY;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84954455111     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470669464.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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