Overview of alternative infrared detectors and focal plane arrays for LWIR applications

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 365-372
Author(s):  
S. Bernhardt ◽  
I. Ribet-Mohamed ◽  
R. Haïdar ◽  
S. Maine ◽  
N. Guérineau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focal Plane ◽  
Infrared Detectors ◽  
Focal Plane Arrays

Uncooled infrared detectors and focal plane arrays

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meimei Z. Tidrow ◽  
William W. Clark III ◽  
W. Tipton ◽  
R. Hoffman ◽  
William A. Beck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focal Plane ◽  
Infrared Detectors ◽  
Focal Plane Arrays ◽  
Uncooled Infrared Detectors

Design of Readout Circuit for Pyroelectric Detector Based on Novel Pyroelectric Materials

2011 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 1918-1921
Author(s):  
Jiang Wang ◽  
Wei Ping Jing ◽  
Yan Jin Li
Keyword(s):  
Single Crystals ◽  
Focal Plane ◽  
Infrared Detectors ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Optical Power ◽  
Focal Plane Arrays ◽  
Readout Circuit ◽  
Weak Current ◽  
Broad Bandwidth

Recently, scientists discovered that relaxor-based ferroelectric single crystals, such as (1-x)Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 -xPbTiO3 (PMN-xPT, or PMNT) single crystals, exhibit extra-high pyroelectric responses. They are promising candidates for optical power detectors in broad bandwidth at ultraviolet, visible and infrared wavelength.To fabricate high performance infrared detectors with relaxor-based single crystals, the related readout circuit was investigated to increase signal-to-noise ratio, and 8×1 CMOS readout circuit is fabricated to gain very weak current, which provides a solution for uncooled large focal plane arrays devices based on relaxor-based single crystals.

Au-doped HgCdTe for infrared detectors and focal plane arrays

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muren Chu ◽  
Sevag Terterian ◽  
C. C. Wang ◽  
Shoghig Mesropian ◽  
H. K. Gurgenian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focal Plane ◽  
Infrared Detectors ◽  
Focal Plane Arrays

The Organometallic Epitaxy of Hgcdte for Infrared Detector Applications

1987 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.K. Ghandhi
Keyword(s):  
Focal Plane ◽  
Infrared Detectors ◽  
Mercury Cadmium Telluride ◽  
Infrared Detector ◽  
Far Infrared ◽  
Focal Plane Arrays ◽  
Organometallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy ◽  
Compositional Uniformity ◽  
Far Infrared Detectors ◽  
Direct Alloy

ABSTRACTThis paper reviews the requirements for mercury cadmium telluride material which is suitable for far infrared detectors. This is followed by substrate and reactor considerations, leading to its direct alloy growth by organometallic vapor phase epitaxy.It is shown that HgCdTe can now be grown with electrical properties and areal compositional uniformity that are suitable for focal plane arrays, operating in the 10.6 Am range.

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