Broadband THz uncooled antenna-coupled microbolometer arrayelectromagnetic design, simulations and measurements

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 299-305

  Nguyen, Duy Thong ^a   Simoens, François ^a   Ouvrier Buffet, Jean Louis ^a   Meilhan, Jérôme ^a   Coutaz, Jean Louis ^b  

^a CEA LETI   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Antenna coupled bolometer; Electromagnetic simulation; Fourier transform spectrometer; Spectral absorption; THz imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA-COUPLED BOLOMETERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; SPECTRAL ABSORPTIONS; THZ IMAGING;

BOLOMETERS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84861190705     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2012.2188395     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. T. W. Crowe, "GaAs Schottky barrier mixer diodes for the frequency range 1-10 THz," Int. J. Infrared and Millim. Waves, vol. 10, pp. 765-777, Jul. 1989.
2. W. Knap, Y. Deng, S. Rumyantsev, and M. S. Shur, "Resonant detection of subterahertz and terahertz radiation by plasma waves in submicron field-effect transistors," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 81, p. 4637, 2002.
3. P. Helisto, A. Luukanen, L. Gronberg, J. S. Penttila, H. Seppa, H. Sipola, C. R. Dietlein, and E. N. Crossman, "Antenna-coupled microbolometers for passive THz direct detection imaging arrays," in 1st Eur. Microw. Integr. Circuits Conf., Sep. 10-13, 2006, pp. 35-38.
4. J. J. Yon, A. Astier, S. Bisotto, G. Chamingis, A. Durand, J. L. Martin, E. Mottin, J. L. Ouvrier-Buffet, and J. L. Tissot, "First demonstration of 25 μm pitch uncooled amorphous silicon microbolometer IRFPA at LETI-LIR," Proc. SPIE, vol. 5783, p. 432, 2005.
5. J. L. Tissot, S. Tinnes, A. Durand, C. Minassian, P. Robert, and M. Vilain, "High-performance uncooled amorphous silicon VGA and XGA IRFPA with 17 μm pixel-pitch," Proc. SPIE , vol. 7834, p. 78340K, 2010.
6. A. Lee, S. Kumar, B. S. Williams, Q. Hu, and J. L. Reno, "Real-time imaging using a 4.3-THz quantum cascade laser and a 240-320 element focal-plane array," in 2006 Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conf. (CLEO/QELS 2006), May 21-26, 2006, pp. 1-2.
7. F. Simoens, J. Meilhan, S. Pocas, J.-L. Ouvrier-Buffet, T. Maillou, P. Gellie, and S. Barbieri, "THz uncooled microbolometer array development for active imaging and spectroscopy applications," in 2010 35th Int. Conf. on Infrared Millim. and THz Waves (IRMMW-THz), Sep. 5-10, 2010, pp. 1-2.
8. J. Meilhan, B. Dupont, V. Goudon, G. Lasfargues, J. L. Dera, D. T. Nguyen, J. L. Ouvrier-Buffet, S. Pocas, T. Maillou, O. Cathabard, S. Barbieri, and F. Simoens, "Active THz imaging and explosive detection with uncooled antenna-coupled microbolometer arrays," Proc. SPIE, vol. 8023, p. 80230E, 2011.
9. M. A. Dem'yanenko, D. G. Esaev, V. N. Ovsyuk, B. I. Fomin, A. L. Aseev, B. A. Knyazev, G. N. Kulipanov, and N. A. Vinokurov, "Microbolometer detector arrays for the infrared and terahertz ranges," J. Opt. Technol., vol. 76, p. 739, 2009.
10. H. Oulachgar, L. Marchese, C. Alain, P. Topart, S. Ilias, B. Tremblay, M. Bolduc, F. Williamson, F. Généreux, L. L. Noc, J. Osouf, T. Pope, H. Jerominek, and A. Bergeron, "Development of MEMS microbolometer detector for THz applications," in 2010 35th Int. Conf. on Infrared Millim. and THz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2010, Art. 5612408.
11. N. Oda, "Uncooled bolometer-type terahertz focal plane array and camera for real-time imaging," C. R. Phys., vol. 11, pp. 496-509, 2010.
12. G. Chattopadhyay, J. Glenn, J. J. Bock, B. K. Rownd, M. Caldwell, and M. J. Griffin, "Feed horn coupled bolometer arrays for SPIRE-Design, simulations, and measurements," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Techn., vol. 51, no. 10, pp. 2139-2146, Oct. 2003.
13. G. W. Wilson et al., "Frequency selective bolometers-Progress and projections," in 15th Int. Symp. on Space THz Technol., 2004, pp. 106-113.
14. R. Dickie, R. Cahill, H. S. Gamble, V. F. Fusco, P. G. Huggard, B. P. Moyna, M. L. Oldfield, N. Grant, and P. de Maagt, "Polarisation independent bandpass FSS," Electron. Lett., vol. 43, p. 1013, 2007.
15. M. Born and E. Wolf, Basic Properties of the Electromagnetic Field, Principles of Optics, 7th ed. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999, p. 43.
16. B. A. Munk, "Element types: a comparisons," in Frequency Selective Surfaces: Theory and Design. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2000, ch. 2, pp. 50-51.