Interagency Funded Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) Research and Development at Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA and Defense Application

NASA, commercial, medical, and defense applications such as Earth observation systems, astronomy, weather monitoring, thermal mapping, thermography, missile tracking, and night vision aids, etc. require high performance large format long wavelength infrared (LWIR) detector arrays in the range of 8-16 µm.