New thermally isolated pixel structure for high-resolution (640×480) uncooled infrared focal plane arrays

Shigeru Tohyama; Masaru Miyoshi; Seiji Kurashina; Nobukazu Ito; Tokuhito Sasaki; Akira Ajisawa; Yutaka Tanaka; Akihiro Kawahara; Kiyoshi Iida; Naoki Oda

doi:10.1117/1.2151892

1 January 2006 New thermally isolated pixel structure for high-resolution (640×480) uncooled infrared focal plane arrays

Shigeru Tohyama, Masaru Miyoshi, Seiji Kurashina, Nobukazu Ito, Tokuhito Sasaki, Akira Ajisawa, Yutaka Tanaka, Akihiro Kawahara, Kiyoshi Iida, Naoki Oda

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 45, Issue 1, 014001 (January 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2151892

Abstract

A new pixel structure with twice-bent beams and eaves structure, suitable for high-resolution uncooled infrared (IR) focal plane arrays (FPAs), is proposed. In comparison with previous results (FPA of 37-µm pixel pitch), the thermal conductance of the test device with the proposed pixel structure of 23.5-µm pitch is reduced about 2.5 times. The eaves structure, which is adopted to increase the fill factor of pixels, improves the responsivity by a factor of 1.3. A 640×480 bolometer-type uncooled IRFPA is demonstrated by utilizing the new pixel structure, with supplementary modification to improve thermal conductance and thermal time constant. It shows a noise equivalent temperature difference (NETD) of 50 mK for F/1.0 optics at 30 frames/sec, a thermal conductance of 0.03 µW/K, and a thermal time constant of 16 msec.

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Shigeru Tohyama, Masaru Miyoshi, Seiji Kurashina, Nobukazu Ito, Tokuhito Sasaki, Akira Ajisawa, Yutaka Tanaka, Akihiro Kawahara, Kiyoshi Iida, and Naoki Oda "New thermally isolated pixel structure for high-resolution (640×480) uncooled infrared focal plane arrays," Optical Engineering 45(1), 014001 (1 January 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2151892

Published: 1 January 2006

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