Research on VO x uncooled infrared bolometer based on porous silicon

Frontiers of Optoelectronics - Tập 5 - Trang 292-297 - 2012
Bin Wang1,2, Jianjun Lai1,2, Erjing Zhao1, Haoming Hu1, Sihai Chen1,2
1School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
2Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, China

Tóm tắt

In this paper, vanadium oxide thin film of TCR of −3.5%/K has been deposited by pulsed DC magnetron sputtering method. The property of this VO x has been investigated by X-ray diffractometer (XRD) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) in detail. XRD test indicates that this film is composed of V2O3, V3O5 and VO2.VO x microbolometer with infrared (IR) absorbing structure is fabricated based on porous silicon sacrificial layer technology. Optimized micro-bridge structure is designed and carried out to decrease thermal conductance and this structure shows good compatibility with micromachining technology. This kind of bolometer with 74% IR absorption of 8–14 μm, has maximum detectivity of 1.09×109 cm·Hz1/2/W at 24 Hz frequency and 9.8 μA bias current.

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