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26 July 1999Advances in amorphous silicon uncooled IR systems
John F. Brady III,1 Thomas R. Schimert,1 David D. Ratcliff,1 Roland W. Gooch,1 Bobbi Ritchey,1 P. McCardel,1 K. Rachels,1 Steven J. Ropson,1 Marty Wand,1 M. Weinstein,1 John Wynn1
A new class of uncooled IR systems has been developed based on advances in both amorphous silicon detectors and signal/system processing techniques. Not only are these devices uncooled but they operate over a wide system ambient temperature range without the use of TEC's or choppers. The devices are DC biased and provide radiometric information from each pixel without the use of a calibrated source. The current imaging system are medium to low resolution. They were designed with a very disciplined 'concept-to-cost' technique in which cost, power, sizes, weight and performance were traded off in the stated order. The result has been a new generation of 'ambient temperature' thermal imaging system and radiometers.
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John F. Brady III, Thomas R. Schimert, David D. Ratcliff, Roland W. Gooch, Bobbi Ritchey, P. McCardel, K. Rachels, Steven J. Ropson, Marty Wand, M. Weinstein, John Wynn, "Advances in amorphous silicon uncooled IR systems," Proc. SPIE 3698, Infrared Technology and Applications XXV, (26 July 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.354517