Design of Dual-Band Uncooled Infrared Microbolometer

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 167-175

  Cheng, Qi ^a   Bui, Truc ^a   Almasri, Mahmoud ^a   Paradis, Suzanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dual band infrared (IR) detector; microbolometer; vanadium oxide (VOx)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008016146     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2056364     Document Type: Article

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