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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1999
Michael D. Jack, Goleta, CA (US);
Jan Grinberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Franklin A. Dolezal, Reseda, CA (US);
Ray Balcerak, Alexandria, VA (US);
Raytheon Company, Lexington, MA (US);
Abstract
An integrated infrared and millimeter-wave monolithic focal plane sensor array having a substrate upon which an integrated array of infrared sensors and mm-wave sensors are provided at a first planar level on the same side of the substrate, and a planar antenna for receiving incident millimeter-wave radiation located at a second planar level located between the integrated array of sensors and the surface of the substrates for coupling the mm-wave radiation field to the mm-wave sensor. The antenna receiver of electromagnetic radiation, in one embodiment, is an antenna having a crossed bowtie configuration which efficiently couples the radiation field to the mm-wave sensor. The invention also is directed to a method of fabricating such a radiation sensor.