I3.3 - Recent Developments in Photoconductive Infrared Arrays
- Event
- SENSOR+TEST Conferences 2009
2009-05-26 - 2009-05-28
Congress Center Nürnberg - Band
- Proceedings OPTO 2009 & IRS² 2009
- Chapter
- IRS² 3 - Spectroscopy
- Author(s)
- B. Elias - Cal Sensors, Santa Rosa, CA, USA
- Pages
- 243 - 248
- DOI
- 10.5162/irs09/i3.3
- ISBN
- 978-3-9810993-6-2
- Price
- free
Abstract
The infrared region from 1µm to 5µ is an area of interest for both spectroscopic and thermographic applications. Lead sulphide (PbS) and lead selenide (PbSe) are intrinsically photoconductive materials that cover this important spectral region and have a long history of development and manufacturing. They have several advantages over competing materials, but because of their nature, they have several challenges that need to be addressed. This paper will outline the application of several established technologies that have been applied to make PbS and PbSe arrays compatible with modern infrared array applications. An implementation will be shown that takes advantage of these techniques to produce a second generation array.