MIPS Focal Plane Arrays
24 mm Band
- 128 x 128 pixel Si:As BIB detector array
- Developed by Boeing-North American
- IRS Team has lead development responsibility
- 70 mm Band
- 32 x 32 pixel Ge:Ga photoconductor array
- Developed and constructed at the Steward Observatory
- Detector material from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- Custom cryogenic readouts ( CRC-696 )
- 160 mm Band
- 2 x 20 pixel stressed Ge:Ga photoconductor array
- Developed and constructed at the Steward Observatory
- Detector material from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- Custom cryogenic readouts ( CRC-696 )