Dr. Rudolph G. Benz Profile

Dr. Rudolph G. Benz

Chief Science Officer

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Publications (6)

Proceedings Article | 27 May 2022 Presentation + Paper

A proposed figure of merit for digital night vision devices

Austin Richards, Rudy Benz, Waylin Wing

Proceedings Volume 12106, 121060J (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2625607

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Signal to noise ratio, Cameras, Image intensifiers, Night vision, Light emitting diodes, Image resolution, Image processing, Night vision systems, Image sensors

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Proceedings Article | 5 February 2003 Paper

Hybrid APD for single visible photon imaging

Bill Smith, Keith Passmore, Arlynn Smith, Randy Lundberg, Nils Thomas, Nick Bell, Chris Lively, Roger Sillmon, Rudolph Benz, Eric Karplus, J. Abraham, Hugh Popenoe, Richard Farrell, Daniel Ferenc

Proceedings Volume 4796, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.450893

KEYWORDS: Avalanche photodetectors, Prototyping, Quantum efficiency, Gallium arsenide, Image processing, Sensors, Ionization, Compound parabolic concentrators, Spatial resolution, Signal processing

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Proceedings Article | 27 June 1996 Paper

MBE flexible manufacturing for HgCdTe focal plane arrays

J. Benson, John Dinan, James Waterman, Christopher Summers, Rudolph Benz, Brent Wagner, S. Pearson, Ashesh Parikh, John Jensen, Owen Wu, Rajesh Rajavel, G. Kamath, Karl Harris, Steven Jost, Jose Arias, Lester Kozlowski, Majid Zandian, Jagmohan Bajaj, Kadri Vural, Roger DeWames, Charles Cockrum, G. Venzor, Scott Johnson, H.-D. Shih, M. Bevan, J. Dodge, Art Simmons

Proceedings Volume 2744, (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.243457

KEYWORDS: Staring arrays, Manufacturing, Liquid phase epitaxy, Mercury cadmium telluride, Semiconducting wafers, Sensors, Detector arrays, Heterojunctions, Infrared radiation, Detector development

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