Detectors Focal Plane Arrays And Imaging Devices Ii

Detectors, Focal Plane Arrays, and Imaging Devices II

This collection of works on detectors, focal plane arrays, and imaging devices contains 48 papers on such topics as MBE growth of HgCdTe for infrared focal plane arrays and the application of visibility to evaluate and analyze thermal images under obscured infrared smokescreen conditions.

Antimonide-based Infrared Detectors

"Among the many materials investigated in the infrared (IR) field, narrow-gap semiconductors are the most important in IR photon detector family. Although the first widely used narrow-gap materials were lead salts (during the 1950s, IR detectors were built using single-element-cooled PbS and PbSe photoconductive detectors, primary for anti-missile seekers), this semiconductor family was not well distinguished. This situation seems to have resulted from two reasons: the preparation process of lead salt photoconductive polycrystalline detectors was not well understood and could only be reproduced with well-tried recipes; and the theory of narrow-gap semiconductor bandgap structure was not well known for correct interpretation of the measured transport and photoelectrical properties of these materials"--

Infrared Detectors, Focal Plane Arrays, and Imaging Sensors