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9780471897972

Optical Radiation Detectors

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  • ISBN13:

    9780471897972

  • ISBN10:

    0471897973

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1984-10-01
  • Publisher: Wiley

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Optical Radiation Detectors, Eustace L. Dereniak and Devon G. Crowe Offers a comprehensive, integrated treatment of optical radiation detectors, discussing their capabilities and limitations. Background material on radiometry, noise sources, and detector physics is introduced, followed by more detailed discussions of photon detectors, thermal detectors, and charge transfer arrays of detectors.

Author Biography

EUSTACE L. DERENIAK, PhD, is Professor in the Optical SciencesCenter and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineeringof the University of Arizona. Before joining the university facultyin 1978, he spent many years in industrial research with Raytheon, Rockwell International, and Ball Brothers Research Corporation. Heis coauthor of Optical Radiation Detectors and author or coauthorof more than 100 refereed articles. He has served as visitingprofessor with the U.S. Army and Air Force, research associate withthe Air Force's Rome Air Development Center, and consultant to theUniversity of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.

Devon G. Crowe is the author of Optical Radiation Detectors, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Radiometry.
Introduction to Detector Physics and Nomenclature.
Photovoltaic Detection Theory.
Photoconductors.
Photoemissive Detector Theory.
Thermal Detectors and Thermopiles.
Bolometers.
Pyroelectric Detectors.
Charge Transfer Devices.
Appendixes.
Index.

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