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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2020
The United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Crane, IN (US);
Timothy Allen Morgan, Ellettsville, IN (US);
Benjamin R. Conley, Bloomington, IN (US);
The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a metamaterial focal plane array for broad spectrum imaging. Electromagnetic energy in the form of light is absorbed in or on a metamaterial absorber and a subsequent hot carriers are collected either in a semiconductor space charge region (e.g. P-N junction), or in some other modern collection scheme. Following the accumulation of photogenerated charge (electrons or holes), the signal is then converted to a digital signal using conventional or slightly modified ROIC modules.