Chapter 1 - Introduction (M. Henini, M.Razeghi)

Chapter 2 - Comparison of photon and thermal detector performance (A. Rogalski)

2.1 Introduc tion

2.2 Fundamental limits to infrared detector performa nce

2.2.1 Photon detectors

2.2.2 Thermal d etectors

2.2.3 Comparison of the fundamental limits of ph oton and thermal detectors

2.3 Focal plane array performa nce

2.4 FPAs of photon detectors

2.4.1 InS b photodiodes

2.4.2 HgCdTe photodiodes

2.4 .3 Photoemissive PtSi Schottky-barrier detectors

2.4.4 Ex trinsic photoconductors

2.4.5 GaAs/AIGaAs QWIPs

2.4.6 QWIP versus HgCdTe in the LWIR spectral region
2.5 Dual-band FPAs

2.5.1 Dual-band HgCdTe
2.5.2 Dual-band QWIPs

2.6 FPAs of thermal detectors

2.6.1 Micromachined silicon bolometers

2.6.2 Pyroelectric arrays

2.6.3 Thermoelectric arrays