Infrared Sensors, Devices, and Applications IV

The detection of infrared radiation has proven to be a viable investigative tool in environmental studies, homeland security, and in medical, automotive, and military applications. This conference will provide a venue for papers ranging from basic device physics to novel applications. There will be sessions featuring image processing techniques on the focal plane and smart readout electronics. Rapid development in feature size has led to the need for continual state-of-the-art updates to the optics community. Recent developments in strained superlattices, type II antimony-based detector materials, InAs:GaAs, and developments in room temperature infrared detectors have resulted in significant material advances. Various architectures using signal conditioning technology have been demonstrated at cryogenic temperatures for higher-performance cooled IR FPAs, and are therefore available as tools for researchers in various disciplines. We are looking for papers that demonstrate state-of-the-art in novel readout structures, on-chip signal processing, and papers that will provide information on newly designed, less expensive digital circuits for fast and ultrafast signal processors on the focal plane array. In addition, the conference is intended as a high-level forum bringing together scientists and engineers involved in the research, design, and development of infrared sensors and unique IR device structures including nanotechnology.