Image Sensing Technology. Optically Readable Bi-material Infrared Detector.

Issues involving infrared detector material systems

Objectives and Status—The original objectives of this project are two folded. One objective is to develop textured template for growth of epitaxial thin film ferroelectric (TFFE) IR detectors on polyimide coated Si. The commercial TFFE has a polycrystalline structure since it is directly grown on non-textured polyimide coating. This results in degraded device performance. The same problem also ...

Optically sensitive Medipix2 detector for adaptive optics wavefront sensing

A new hybrid optical detector is described that has many of the attributes desired for the next generation adaptive optics (AO) wavefront sensors. The detector consists of a proximity focused MCP read out by multipixel application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips developed at CERN (“Medipix2”) with individual pixels that amplify, discriminate and count input events. The detector has 256...

Electrically and Optically Readable Light Emitting Memories

Electrochemical metallization memories based on redox-induced resistance switching have been considered as the next-generation electronic storage devices. However, the electronic signals suffer from the interconnect delay and the limited reading speed, which are the major obstacles for memory performance. To solve this problem, here we demonstrate the first attempt of light-emitting memory (LEM...

Advances in Infrared Detector Array Technology

This Chapter covers recent advances in Short Wavelength Infrared (SWIR), Medium Wave‐ length Infrared (MWIR) and Long Wavelength Infrared (LWIR) materials and device technol‐ ogies for a variety of defense and commercial applications. Infrared technology is critical for military and security applications, as well as increasingly being used in many commercial products such as medical diagnostics...

Nanostructured Detector Technology for Optical Sensing Applications