Room‐temperature operating means a profound reduction of volume, power consumption,
and cost for infrared (IR) photodetectors, which promise a wide range of applications in both …

Infrared (IR) detectors have important applications in numerous civil and military sectors.
HgCdTe is one of the most important materials for IR detector manufacture. This review …

Polarization-sensitive photodetectors have attracted considerable attention owing to their
potential application prospects in navigation, optical switching, and communication …

Passivation of HgCdTe is known to be a key point in the making of high performance cooled
infrared imagers. In this work, the electrical properties of the passivation layer of n-type mid …

In instruments for low energetic neutral atom imaging of space plasmas, a charge state
conversion surface (CS) is used to convert neutral atoms into ions for detection. We …

The tunable bandgap semiconductor mercury cadmium telluride (MCT) is by far the most
efficient detector in the 3–5 μm mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and 8–14 μm long-wave infrared …

A nearly universal goal for infrared photon detection systems is to increase their operating
temperature without sacrificing performance. The limiting factor for cooling requirements is …

This paper reports progress with work aimed at using HgCdTe detector arrays at
temperatures above 200 K where cooling is possible with thermo-electric coolers. Both …

Exposure to proton radiation degrades the performance of wavelength infrared (MWIR) and
long wavelength infrared (LWIR) HgCdTe photodetectors to varying degrees depending on …

BACKGROUND With recent improvements 1 in conversion efficiency exceeding 20%, CdTe-
based thin-film solar cells show great promise as a possible low cost alternative to the …