Infrared Detectors and Emitters: Materials and Devices

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Introduction to Infrared Devices and Fundamentals of Their Operation

   • C. T. Elliott, N. T. Gordon

   Pages 1-22

3. Assessment of Infrared Materials and Devices

   • N. T. Gordon, I. M. Baker

   Pages 23-42

4. IV-VI (Lead Chalcogenide) Infrared Sensors and Lasers

   • H. Zogg, Akihiro Ishida

   Pages 43-75

5. Metal Silicide Schottky Infrared Detector Arrays

   • Masafumi Kimata

   Pages 77-98

6. Pyroelectric Materials and Devices

   • R. W. Whatmore, R. Watton

   Pages 99-147

7. Uncooled Microbolometer Infrared Sensor Arrays

   • R. A. Wood

   Pages 149-175

8. Insb: Materials and Devices

   • W. F. H. Micklethwaite, A. J. Johnson

   Pages 177-204

9. Growth, Properties and Infrared Device Characteristics of Strained InAsSb-Based Materials

   • R. M. Biefeld, S. R. Kurtz

   Pages 205-232

10. Tl-Based III-V Alloy Semiconductors

    • H. Asahi

    Pages 233-249

11. MCT Materials Aspects

    • P. Capper

    Pages 251-278

12. Photoconductive and Non-Equilibrium Devices in HgCdTe and Related Alloys

    • C. T. Elliott

    Pages 279-312

13. Photovoltaic Detectors in MCT

    • M. B. Reine

    Pages 313-376

14. Hg-based alternatives to MCT

    • A. Rogalski

    Pages 377-400

15. Reduced-Dimensionality HgTe-CdTe for the Infrared

    • J. R. Meyer, I. Vurgaftman

    Pages 401-422

16. Quantum Well Infra-Red Detectors

    • M. J. Kane

    Pages 423-456

17. Back Matter

    Pages 457-478

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Infrared (IR) detectors fall into two main categories, thermal and photon. The earliest detectors of IR were thermal in nature, e.g. thermometers. The subsequent developments of these detectors, such as thermopiles, resistance bolometers, Golay cells and pyroelectric detectors, can operate at ambient temperature but have disadvantages of insensitivity and slowness. A wide variety of semiconductor photon detectors have been developed and these possess very high sensitivity, high frequency response but have the disadvantage of needing cryogenic cooling, particularly at longer wavelengths. In the main, the applications have been in the military sphere, but widespread industrial and scientific applications also exist. The majority of development funding for these semiconducting IR detectors has, however, come from military sources. This book is an attempt to provide an up-to-date view of the various IR detector/emitter materials systems currently in use or being actively researched. The book is aimed at newcomers to the field and at those already working in the IR industry. It is hoped that the former will find the book readable both as an introductory text and as a useful guide to the literature. Workers in one of the various IR areas will, hopefully, find the book useful in bringing them up-to-date with other, sometimes competing, technologies. To both groups of readers we trust that the book will prove interesting, thought-provoking and a spur to further progress in this fascinating and challenging field of endeavour.

• alloy
• development
• frequency
• laser
• material
• metals
• semiconductor
• semiconductors
• sensor

`The book providesa useful, compact reference work for the infrated specialist and a good tutorial for the non-specialist, particularly through the two introductory chapters on the operating principles and assessment of devices, and theoretical sections dispersed amongst the other chapters. Chapters 1 and 2 are recommended reading before full immersion in the later chapters, which are all by well-known.'
Measured Science Technology,12:9(2001)

• BAE SYSTEMS Infra-Red Ltd., Millbrook, Southampton, Hants, UK

  Peter Capper

• DERA, Worcs., UK

  C. T. Elliott

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