In this thesis the performance of a step quantum well infrared photodetector, designed by Kevin Lantz (June 2002) and experimentally studied by Michael Touse (September 2003) and Yeo Hwee Tiong (December 2004), was simulated in Matlab using the transfer matrix method. The results obtained by the Matlab program are compared with the experimental results in a try to make inferences about the optimum way of designing QWIP detectors. Simulation of the above implies numerical solution of the SchroÌ dinger equation, using algorithms and methods, which give accurate results. In our approach, the transfer matrix method is used with exponential and, Airy functions to represent the solutions to SchroÌ dinger equation under zero and nonzero bias, respectively. In the final section of the thesis we examine and simulate in Matlab the application of the extended Kalman filtering (EKF) to an infrared photodetector as a target tracking mechanism to both maneuvering and non-maneuvering targets.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2003. / Supervisor: Joe C. Campbell. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

Thesis (M.S. in Electrical Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Nancy M. Haegel, John Powers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-54). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2008. / Vita. Advisor : Jimmy M. Xu. Sciences copy 2 : includes supplementary digital materials. Written title on CD-ROM: Dan Straus thesis final version; Dan Straus thesis defense. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-123).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-232). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

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We present full-scale relativistic pseudopotential calculations of the first-order susceptibility in p-type SiGe/Si multiple quantum well structures with a view to exploring the suitability of such systems for infrared applications in the 3-5yrn and 8-15itm ranges. A derivation of an expression for the linear susceptibility, or absorption, is given and the frequency dependence of the linear response due to transitions between the valence minibands is determined. The microscopic origin of the absorption is demonstrated for both parallel and normal incident light. Comparisons between calculated and experimental results are presented and shown to be in good agreement. The effects of changing well width, temperature, doping concentration and germanium concentration in the well are considered. We also consider Auger recombination and discuss the possibility of engineering the miniband structure in order to prevent certain Auger processes occuring, Preliminary results from full scale Auger calculations are also presented.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Australia, 2005.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, March, 1993. / Title from PDF t.p.