**Author details**

Małgorzata Kopytko\* and Piotr Martyniuk

\*Address all correspondence to: malgorzata.kopytko@wat.edu.pl

Institute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

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\*Address all correspondence to: malgorzata.kopytko@wat.edu.pl

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Institute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

[1] T. Ashley and C. T. Elliott, "Nonequlibrium devices for infra-red detection," Electron.

[2] S. Maimon and G. Wicks, "nBn detector, an infrared detector with reduced dark current

[3] G. L. Hansen, J. L. Schmidt and T. N. Casselman, "Energy gap versus alloy composition

and higher operating temperature," Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 151109 (2006).

and temperature in Hg1–xCdxTe," J. Appl. Phys. 53, 7099 (1982).

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