Development of a 1K×1K, 8–12μm QWIP array

QWIP-based thermal infrared sensor for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission

“…We have consistently maintained that the applications for QWIP arrays are numerous ranging from military hardware to environmental monitoring to medical/commercial instrumentation [2,3]. Some specific TIRS applications include: agricultural monitoring; cloud detection and analysis; mapping heat fluxes from cities; monitoring air quality; monitoring volcanic activity; monitoring the rain forests; biomass burning; industrial thermal pollution in the atmosphere, rivers and lakes; monitoring/tracking material transport in lakes and coastal regions; identifying insect breeding areas and applications that will ultimately arise in the future as a result of global warming and climate change.…”

“…The research and development cycle for these arrays has progressed at a remarkable rate and in the space of a few years megapixel arrays are readily available. In the 1990s and into this decade rapid development from single element QWIPs to 1 K Â 1 K arrays [2] occurred across a broad spectrum of the near to far infrared. With the concurrent development of large format silicon readout ICs it has been a relatively simple task for QWIP technology to keep pace.…”

Colloidal and Epitaxial Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors: Growth, Performance, and Comparison

“…Quantum dotbased FPA performances have been improving. Normalized NETD is plotted as a function of wavelength in Figure 23 for both QDIPs (52,(290)(291)(292)(293)(294)(295)(296) and QWIPs (296)(297)(298)(299)(300)(301)(302)(303)(304).…”

Review of current progress in quantum dot infrared photodetectors

“…Normalized NETD is plotted as a function of wavelength in Fig. 7 for both QDIPs [67,68,105,[133][134][135][136][137] and QWIPs [91,92,102,126,128,[138][139][140]. For fair comparison, all NETD data points are scaled to have an f-number (f ) of 2, using the following relation [116]:…”