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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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4147562 |
Pyroelectric detector
A pyroelectric detector as formed by parylene C polymer film.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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