Blocked Impurity Band Detector

Petroff, M. D. Stapelbroek, M. G. (1980). Blocked impurity band detectors, radiation hard high performance LWIR detectors. In Proceedings, IRIS Specialty Group on Infrared Detectors, Menlo Park, California. 

Szmulowicz and Marasz (1987) Blocked Impurity Band Detectors An Analytical Model Figures of Merit by F. Szmulowicz and F. L. Marasz, /. Appl. Phys, 62, 2533-2540. 

Woods et al. (2011) Characterization of the Optical Properties of an Infrared Blocked Impurity Band Detector by S. I. Woods, S. G. Kaplan, T. M. Jung, and A. C. Carter, Appl. Opt. 50(25), 4824-4833. Abstract accessed 30 January 2013 at http //www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm uri=ao-50-24-4824. This paper provides insight into the mechanisms involved, and how to analyze the structure. 

Goyal et al. (2011 poster) Germanium Blocked Impurity Band Detectors by S. Goyal, J. Bandaru, J. W. Beeman, and E. E. Haller. Poster Accessed 14 November 2011 at www.sofia.usra.edu/det workshop/posters/.../3-16goyal poster.pdf. 

D. M. Watson, M. T. GuptiU, J. E. Huf nan, T. N. Krabach, S. N. Raines, S. Satyapal, Germanium blocked-impurity-band detector arrays Unpassivated devices with bulk substrates , J. Appl. Phys. TA (6), pp. 4199-4206, 15 September 1993. 

Stetson, S. B., Reynolds, D. B., Stapelbroek, M. G., and Stermer, R. L., 1986, "Design and Performance of Blocked-Impurity-Band Detector Focal Plane Arrays, in Proceedings of 30th Annual International Technical SPIE Symposium on Infrared Detectors, Sensors, and Focal Plane Arrays, August 1986, San Diego, CA. 

Fig. 1. Structure of a Badc-lllmniiiated Blocked-Impurity-Band (BIBIB) detector showinf the transparent substrate upon which the infrared active and blocking layers are grown.

Watson, D. M. and Huffinan, J. E. 1988, "Ge Blocked-Impurity-Band Far-infrared Detector , Appl. Phys, Letters, 52, p. 1610. 

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