• DocumentCode
    1192288
  • Title

    Improvement of responsivity of a room temperature 10.6 μm sensor using an intra-band transition

  • Author

    Kikuchi, Kazuo

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Defense Acad., Yokosuka, Japan
  • Volume
    40
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    12/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    962
  • Lastpage
    965
  • Abstract
    An improvement in the responsivity of room temperature 10.6-μm sensors based on an intra-band transition is proposed. The sensor, fabricated in p-type germanium, forms a resonator. An improvement of 20 dB in the responsivity is obtained at zero bias voltage. This is comparable to values for sensors based on uncooled HgCdTe
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; germanium; infrared detectors; 10.6 micron; Ge; IR detector; intra-band transition; p-Ge; resonator; responsivity; room temperature; uncooled HgCdTe; zero bias voltage; Absorption; Germanium; Heating; Laser beams; Optical reflection; Optical resonators; Optical sensors; Temperature sensors; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9456
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/19.119775
  • Filename
    119775