3-D Modeling of Pyroelectric Sensor Arrays Part I: Multiphysics Finite-Element Simulation

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2080-2087

  Milde, Günter ^b   Gerlach, Gerald ^b   Bahr, Hans Achim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID MECHANICS   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite element method (FEM); infrared sensor array; pyroelectric sensor; sensor modeling; simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008040889     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.2007683     Document Type: Article

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