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6713762 Acoustic absorption electromagnetic radiation sensing with SIC  
Single crystal SiC at least 200 micrometers thick is employed to detect electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength less than about 10 micrometers via an acoustic absorption mechanism....
6495829 Thermal infrared array sensor for detecting a plurality of infrared wavelength bands  
An infrared array sensor having an array of infrared sensors of different plural types for detecting infrared rays of different plural wavelength bands. Each sensor includes a diaphragm separated...
6329655 Architecture and method of coupling electromagnetic energy to thermal detectors  
A radiation sensor. The inventive sensor has a two-level detector structure formed on a substrate in which a thermal detector element is suspended over the substrate as a microbridge structure. A...
6329649 Mm-wave/IR monolithically integrated focal plane array  
An integrated infrared and millimeter-wave monolithic focal plane sensor array having a substrate upon which an integrated array of infrared sensors and mm-wave sensors are provided at a first...
6292089 Structures for temperature sensors and infrared detectors  
A structure for temperature sensors and infrared detectors. The structure is built-up on a substrate that includes a thermistor layer, wherein the resistance of the thermistor layer is temperature...
6239432 IR radiation sensing with SIC  
SiC, preferably in single crystal form, is employed as an IR radiation sensor with high temperature and power capabilities. Applications include sensing the power or energy from an IR radiation...
6225629 Bolometer with a serpentine stress balancing member  
A infra-red bolometer includes an active matrix level, a support level, a pair of posts and an absorption level. The active matrix level includes a substrate having a pair of connecting terminals....
6201244 Bolometer including an absorber made of a material having a low deposition-temperature and a low heat-conductivity  
A three-level infra-red bolometer includes an active matrix level, a support level, a pair of posts and an absorption level. The active matrix level includes a substrate having an integrated...
6198099 Bolometer including a reflective layer  
A infra-red bolometer includes an active matrix level, a support level, a pair of posts and an absorption level. The active matrix level includes a substrate having a pair of connecting terminals....
6144285 Thermal sensor and method of making same  
A two level microbridge infrared thermal detector having an upper detector planar section (a) comprising a temperature responsive detector of an oxide of vanadium having a high TCR and a...
6121618 Method of operating a high responsivity thermochromic infrared detector  
A high responsivity thermochromic infrared detector which has an operating temperature that is established on the steepest part of the phase transition curve and is maintained there while the...
6094127 Infrared bolometer and method for manufacturing same  
The inventive three-level infrared bolometer includes an active matrix level, a support level, a pair of post and a absorption level. The active matrix level includes a substrate having an...
RE36615 Use of vanadium oxide in microbolometer sensors  
In a microbolometer infrared radiation sensor, a detector material (VO 2 ) having a high thermal coefficient of resistance to increase the sensitivity of the apparatus.
5998791 Thermally sensitive element and radiation sensor  
A thermally sensitive element is manufactured as follows: a carbonized sheet material is prepared by carbonizing an aramid film at a low temperature; a conductive layer made of carbon ink is formed...
5966590 Method for manufacturing thermal-type infrared sensor  
In a method of manufacturing a thermal-type infrared sensor including a thermosensitive part, a bolometer material is formed as the thermosensitive part and is subjected to post-processing to...
5939971 Infrared bolometer  
A three-level infrared bolometer including an active matrix level, a support level, posts and an absorption level. The active matrix level includes a substrate having an integrated circuit,...
5900799 High responsivity thermochromic infrared detector  
A high responsivity thermochromic infrared detector which has an operating temperature that is established on the steepest part of the phase transition curve and is maintained there while the...
RE36136 Thermal sensor  
A two-level IR detector imaging array of high fill-factor design. The upper microbridge detector level is spaced above and overlie the integrated circuit and bus lines on the substrate surface below.
5798684 Thin-film temperature sensor  
A thin-film temperature sensor with a robust bridge structure and a stable electric characteristic, as well as a method of manufacture thereof, is provided. Over the substrate 1 with the cavity 13...
5629665 Conducting-polymer bolometer  
The invention is an apparatus and method for making a polymer bolometer. The apparatus consists of a current supply and current receiving paths affixed to a substrate. Bridging the current supply...
5584117 Method of making an interferometer-based bolometer  
An infrared detector device is described. It is based on an infrared analog of the Fabry Perot interferometer, using one curved, fully reflecting, plate and one planar, mainly reflecting, but...
5581232 Ultrasonic wave reception apparatus and obstacle detection apparatus  
An obstacle detection apparatus includes a rubber-like elastic body interspersed with electroconductive particles, and means for applying a voltage to the rubber-like elastic body to obtain an...
5426412 Infrared detecting device and infrared detecting element for use in the device  
An infrared detecting arrangement includes an infrared detecting element having a heat insulating film and an infrared detector which are disposed between an interior space of a hermetically sealed...
5420419 Camera for producing video output signal, infrared focal plane array package for such camera, and method and apparatus for generating video signals from passive focal plane array of elements on a semiconductor substrate  
A camera system primarily for infrared radiation having a focal plane array of microbolometer elements in a vacuum package with inexpensive thermoelectric temperature stabilization is shown. The...
5406081 Infrared detector utilizing diamond film  
A detector using a diamond thin film having high response speed and sensitivity. A p-type layer may be formed in an upper portion of the diamond film by doping boron thereto. Since a sensor layer...
5404125 Infrared radiation sensor  
An infrared sensor comprising a sensor substrate formed of a semiconducting material and at least one set of infrared sensing portions formed one each on the opposite surfaces of said sensor...
5302933 Infrared sensor  
An infrared radiation sensor has a bridge portion which bridges a cave portion formed in a sensor substrate. The bridge portion includes an infrared radiation receiving portion and support portions...
5220188 Integrated micromechanical sensor element  
A sensor element that is adapted to respond to radiation, and which is adapted to the manufacture of a sensor array is manufactured into a single crystal semiconductor means such as silicon. An...
5220189 Micromechanical thermoelectric sensor element  
A thermoelectric sensor element that is adapted to respond to thermal radiation is capable of manufacture into a sensor array on a single crystal semiconductor means, such as silicon. An...
5122668 Infrared detection element  
In the present invention, semiconductor fibers electrical resistance of which varies in response to temperature change are arranged unidirectionally or bidirectionally, so that a detection element...
5099496 Adaptive equalizers  
A fractionally spaced adaptive equalizer structure provides improved processing speed. Equalization is performed by time-spaced processing arrays, each array having a plurality of elements each...
5025243 Infrared detective element  
An infrared detective element for detecting a dose of infrared rays by a change in electrical resistance of monofilaments composed mainly of silicon carbide upon infrared radiation thereto, either...
5010315 Thermal radiation sensor  
A thermal radiation sensor is suggested which comprises two receiver surfaces exposed to the radiation, one receiver surface (1) having a high absorption capacity with respect to the thermal...
4918508 Vertical photoconductive detector  
A photoconductive detector comprises a substrate layer of semiconductor material of a first conductivity type substantially transparent of light at the wavelength to be detected and doped...
4871921 Detector array assembly having bonding means joining first and second surfaces except where detectors are disposed  
Method and apparatus for providing an improved detector array assembly in which the detectors are electrically connected from one substrate to another through adjoining "bump" connections but are...
4770541 Heat radiation sensing device  
A heat radiation sensing device is provided, which comprises two receiver surfaces which are exposed to the radiation, one of which comprises a high absorption ability with respect to the heat...
4574263 Infrared radiation detector  
An infrared radiation detector in which a stable substrate (5) has a hole (10) through it and a pair of bonding pads (9) on two opposite sides of the hole, the hole being covered by a pellicle (6)...
4572947 Triggering method for light triggered thyristors  
The present invention provides a method for triggering a light triggered thyristor (LT 2 ) which method comprises using a light source to provide background excitation of carriers in at least the...
4464065 Fast granular superconducting bolometer  
A granular superconducting thin film bolometer made by anodizing a thin film of such materials as niobium nitride to form a thin granular film separated by and covered with the anodized oxide. The...
4359414 Insulative composition for forming polymeric electric current regulating junctions  
An electric current regulating junction that can be electrically activated to a low resistance state in which it is capable of passing a relatively low reading current. The junction is capable of...
4349808 Bolometer  
A bolometer has a holder and, secured in the same, a meander-shaped bolometer strip carried by the holder and composed of a carrier layer and a conductive layer of electrically conductive material...
4347526 Radiation detectors  
In a radiation detector including a substrate of photoconductive material having input and output contacts, the photocarrier flow-path between the two contacts includes regions of conductive...
4321615 Manufacture of an infra-red detector element, and detection elements so manufactured  
The manufacture of an infra-red radiation detector element (51). A body of infra-red sensitive material (e.g. cadmium mercury telluride) secured to a substrate (22) is subjected to ion-etching to...
4224520 Room temperature two color infrared detector  
An amorphous film (44) of a photoresponsive semi-conducting material such germanium-telluride deposited upon a thick silicon dioxide layer (40) formed on a silicon chip substrate (38). The silicon...
4162507 Contact structure for a multiple semiconductor component  
A contact structure for a multiple semiconductor component comprises at least two adjacent hand shaped connecting contact arrangements with the fingers parting in opposite directions and splayed...
4147562 Pyroelectric detector  
A pyroelectric detector as formed by parylene C polymer film.
4116063 Liquid helium-cooled bolometer wherein the sensitive element and the elements linking the latter to the electrical connections are obtained from the same semiconductor body  
Bolometer cooled to a very low temperature, wherein the sensitive element has a very low thermal capacity and, for this purpose, a semiconductor crystal extended on two faces by beams made of the...
4089991 Process for applying electrical conductors for Dewar flask  
An improved method for providing electrical conductive paths in a Dewar flask is disclosed. A thin metal film is deposited over the side and top of the inner flask of the Dewar. Portions of the...
3977018 Passivation of mercury cadmium telluride semiconductor surfaces by anodic oxidation  
A substrate of photoconductive semiconductor material is anodized by electrolysis in an electrolyte such as, for example, 0.1M KOH 90% ethylene glycol - 10% deionized water to form anodic oxide...
3976812 Photoconductive cells  
1. A method of forming a photosensitive layer of lead sulfide crystals which comprises precipitating the crystals onto a seeded glass support by adding a solution of allyl-thiourea to an alkaline...
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