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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
May. 10, 2024
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Axel Scherer, Barnard, VT (US);
Paromita Mitchell, Pasadena, CA (US);
John Richard Ordonez-Varela, Lescar, FR;
Jack Jewell, Boulder, CO (US);
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA (US);
TOTALENERGIES E&P RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY USA, INC., Courbevoie, FR;
Abstract
A temperature monitoring system includes a semiconductor member mounted onto the surface of an object having a surface whose temperature is to be monitored. The semiconductor member has a temperature-dependent bandgap with an absorption edge that varies with temperature. A light source is configured to illuminate the semiconductor member with monochromatic light. The monochromatic light has a wavelength equal to an absorption edge wavelength that is associated with the absorption edge when the semiconductor member is at a specified temperature. An imaging device is configured to receive light reflected from the semiconductor member when illuminated with the monochromatic light such that a surface temperature of the object is at the specified temperature when a change in an amount of reflected light that is received indicates that the wavelength of the monochromatic light is equal to the absorption edge wavelength at the specified temperature.