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  1. Uncooled infrared arrays sense image scenes

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    Fri, 1 Aug 1997

    image scenes Rapid maturation of microbolometer technology will spur growth and ..... of a new type of IR array--a microbolometer array--that is silicon based and requires no cooling. Microbolometer arrays differ significantly from

  2. Xenics

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    Wed, 28 Sep 2011

    Manufactures InGaAs focal plane arrays. Also manufactures and designs a range of advanced IR cameras based on InGaAs, mercury cadmium telluride (HgCdTe or MCT), InSb, microbolometer , and other detector technologies.

  1. AMIS to manufacture FLIR microbolometers

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    Mon, 16 Oct 2006

    manufacturing of uncooled microbolometer infrared detectors. Under ..... will install its proprietary microbolometer detector process at AMI Semiconductor ..... agreement will expand current microbolometer detector manufacturing capability

  2. MICROBOLOMETERS: One-mil uncooled array has low noise and high fill factor

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    Mon, 1 Aug 2005

    and reducing pixel size in uncooled microbolometer arrays results in higher resolution ..... improvements in vanadium oxide (VOx) microbolometer arrays have stirred interest for insertion ..... requirements can be met by newly developed microbolometer arrays. Focal-plane-array designs

  3. Also in the news . . .

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    Tue, 1 Jul 1997

    Raytheon Amber (Goleta, CA) has completed transfer of the microbolometer -production technology from Honeywell Corp. (Minneapolis ..... house manufacturing facility, where the 320 ¥ 240-pixel microbolometer focal-plane array used inside the Sentinel uncooled infrared

  4. Talktronics Inc

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    Fri, 24 Jul 2009

    imaging systems for spectroscopy, FTIR, and machine-vision applications in UV, visible, and IR. Builds TEC, LNv(2), and cryocooler imagers for SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR using InSb, MCT, InGaAs, and microbolometer technology.

  5. Porous-silicon optical filter withstands wide temperature swings

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    Tue, 1 May 2007

    tested at the Institut National d’Optique (INO; Quebec City, Que., Canada) in an imager containing an uncooled- microbolometer focal-plane array and blackbody source. The goal is to evaluate the suitability of the INO-fabricated arrays for imaging

  6. Uncooled infrared focal-plane array offers low-cost thermal imagers

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    Fri, 1 Dec 1995

    an uncooled infrared (IR) focal-plane array based on microbolometer technology developed by Honeywell (Bloomington, MN ..... that can be sensed in a scene being viewed. Amber says its microbolometer based array has a NETD of 0.1°C.

  7. IR focal-plane array

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    Mon, 1 Jul 1996

    IR focal-plane array A 320 ¥ 240 uncooled microbolometer sensor is sensitive to 8 to 14-µm IR light and is designed for RS-170 TV format. The device has an integrated vacuum Dewar

  8. Flexible microbolometers promise smart fabrics with embedded sensors

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    Thu, 1 Apr 2004

    polyimide substrate is passivated and the microbolometer is fabricated using surface micromachining ..... removing the sacrificial polyimide, the microbolometer is suspended above the substrate ..... enlarge image Upon completion of the microbolometer fabrication process, the polyimide