Analysis of 320X240 uncooled microbolometer focal plane array ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTI would like to express my deepest gratitude to my late advisor Dr. WalterKosonocky and my advisor Dr. Edwin Hou for giving me the opportunity to work on theresearch and for their valuable help, guidance, and support. Special thanks to Dr.Nuggehalli M. Ravindra and Dr. Timothy Chang for participating on my committee.I am grateful to the engineers at Inframetrics for their timely supervision andhelp. I also wish to thank the other colleagues of the Electronic Imaging Center for theirhelp and friendship, Jun Li, Taras Golota, Zeynep Pektas, Michael Kaplinsky, Dr. GuangYoung, and Rakesh K. Kabra.I would like to acknowledge the financial support received during my graduatestudy from distinguished late professor Walter F. Kosonocky, the NJIT Foundation Chairfor Optoelectronics and Solid State Circuits.vi