On the optical dispersive properties of HgCdTe as a function of depth

An overview of the properties of the absorption coefficient of mercury cadmium telluride that may make this material useful for intrinsic hyperspectral detection is presented. A review of recent work on modeling the absorption coefficient is provided, and new directions for achieving an analytical representation with higher fidelity are suggested.

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