Recent Developments in the Field of IR Detectors

Recent Developments in the Field of IR Detectors, Volume 118 in the Semiconductors and Semimetals series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters, including Type-II superlattice unipolar barrier infrared detectors, Fabrication and characterization of Ga-free T2SL structure for high performance infrared photodetector, Extracting Material and Structural Properties from Conventional Test Data of III-V Superlattice Detectors, Antimony-based Type-II superlattice infrared detectors: Focal Plane Arrays, Near-room temperature InAsSb-based infrared photodetectors, and more.

Other sections cover Interband cascade infrared Photodetectors
and Engineering of Superlattice Based Avalanche Photodiodes.

"...begins with a nice preface on the history of IR detectors that leads to the main subject of the book: T2SL detectors.... This book is volume 118 of the Semiconductor and Semimetals book series, and volume 84 of the same series has a discussion on the subject’s progress up to 2011.... Every chapter of the book comes with a very long lists of references. The index of the book is quite helpful in navigating the many abbreviations used in the book.... [A] very useful reference for researchers and students in the subject area of infrared detectors and their future applications. I congratulate the two editors, Sarath Gunapala and David Ting, for their fine effort in compiling this book on a specialized subject." Review by Nihal Kularatna, IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, May-June 2026

"This book on recent developments related to type-II superlattice (T2SL) IR detectors begins with a nice preface on the history of IR detectors.... I enjoyed reading Chapter 4 on T2SL focal plane arrays, which brings the reader into the discussion of detector arrays. It presents the industrial and practical application of IR detector arrays in addition to fabrication processes.... Remote sensing applications are discussed with lot of useful references.... This reader-friendly chapter discusses applications, advantages, and limitations of IR detector arrays and alternative solutions.... Every chapter of the book comes with a very long list of references. The index of the book is quite helpful in navigating the many abbreviations used in the book.... The book would be a very useful reference for researchers and students in the subject area of infrared detectors and their future applications." Review by Nihal Kularatna, IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, May-June 2026