Three-element stressed ge:Ga photoconductor array for the infrared telescope in space

Applied Optics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 460-465

  Hiromoto, N ^a   Itabe, T ^a   Shibai2, H ^a   Matsuhara, H ^c   Nakagawa, T ^b   Okuda, H ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extrinsic semiconductor; Far infrared; Stressed Ge:Ga photoconductor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975648005     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.31.000460     Document Type: Article

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