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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2006
Applicants:
William A. Lane, Waterfall, IE;
Eamon Hynes, Raheen, IE;
Edward John Coyne, Galway, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides a sensor including a first sensor element formed in a first substrate and at least one optical element formed in a second substrate, the first and second substrates being configured relative to one another such that the second substrate forms a cap over the first sensor element, the at least one optical element being configured to guide incident radiation on the cap to the first sensor element. The sensor also includes a reference sensor element whose output can be used to reference the output of the first sensor element.