Infrared radiation imaging array with compound sensors forming each pixel
CA 2175487 C · Owner: Higashi, Robert E. · Inventors: Wood, Roland Andrew; Higashi, Robert E.; Rhodes, Michael Lee
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An infrared imaging array of thermoelectric sensors has a plurality of electrically connected microbridge subsensors arranged in subarrays comprising each sensor of the array. Each subsensor consists of a short span microbridge lying across a relatively small pit. The use of many of such subsensors for each sensor rather than a single large area microbridge sensor for a single pixel allows each pixel to be made large enough to give good sensitivity in either vacuum- or gas-filled designs and at the same time avoid the reduced fabrication yield which results when sensors span large pits.
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- Filed November 14, 1994 and granted July 16, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 14, 2014.
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