3-D Modeling of Pyroelectric Sensor Arrays Part II: Modulation Transfer Function

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2088-2094

  Häusler, Christoph ^a   Bahr, Hans Achim ^a   Balke, Herbert ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite element method (FEM); modulation; pyroelectric infrared sensor; simulation; transfer function (MTF)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008006194     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.2007690     Document Type: Article

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