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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2020
Applicant:
Lynred, Palaiseau, FR;
Inventor:
Nicolas Boudou, Grenoble, FR;
Assignee:
LYNRED, Palaiseau, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 5/20 (2006.01); G01J 5/00 (2022.01); G01J 5/08 (2022.01); G01J 5/0802 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 5/20 (2013.01); G01J 5/0802 (2022.01); G01J 5/0853 (2013.01); G01J 2005/0077 (2013.01); G01J 2005/202 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a microbolometer comprising an array of pixels, each pixel comprising one or more detection cells, each detection cell comprising an absorption layer (), wherein: the pitch of the detection cells in at least one direction in the plane of pixel array is between 5 and 11 μm; a pixel fill factor FF of the absorption layer () of the one or more detection cells in each pixel is in a range 0.10 to 0.50; and a sheet resistance Rs of the absorption layer () of each detection cell is between 16 and 189 ohm/sq.