Microbolometers: Fundamentals, Materials, and Recent Developments describes the fundamentals of microbolometers, their historic evolution, operational principles and material choices. It also explains the impact of materials on the processing and development of device characteristics. Sections address various aspects of optical properties and recommend models of properties of materials of interest for the fabrication of the uncooled microbolometers. In addition, the book presents two case studies, Honeywell and Texas Instruments, that focus on the design and manufacture of microbolometers.
Finally, recent developments, applications, patents and future trends are presented. The chapter on patents will summarize the strengths and weaknesses of each of the technologies.
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Table of Contents
1. Historical perspective 2. Introduction 3. Figure of merit 4. Infrared detector materials 5. Other materials 6. Optical and thermal detector fundamentals,� microbolometer and readout integrated circuits 7. Methods of calibration 8. Types of microbolometers 9. Terahertz microbolometers 10. Antennas 11. Infrared focal plane arrays 12. Recent developments:�A case study of an uncooled microbolometer 13. Present and future trends 14. Applications
Authors
Nuggehalli Ravindra Department of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA. N M Ravindra (Ravi) is Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He was the Chair of the Physics Department (2009-13) and Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Materials Science and Engineering at NJIT (2009-2016). Ravi is the Founding Editor of Emerging Materials Research. He serves on the editorial board of several international journals and book series that are dedicated to materials science and engineering.Ravi and his research team have published over 300 papers in international journals, books and conference proceedings; his team has several pending and two issued patents; he has organized over 30 international conferences; and he has given over 75 talks in international meetings.
