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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2016
Ulis, Veurey Voroize, FR;
Sébastien Cortial, Sassenage, FR;
Michel Vilain, Saint Georges de Commiers, FR;
ULIS, Veurey Voroize, FR;
Abstract
A bolometric detection device includes a substrate having a read-out circuit. The device also includes an array of elementary detectors each including a membrane suspended above the substrate and connected to the read-out circuit by at least two electric conductors. The membrane has two electrically-conductive electrodes respectively connected to the two electric conductors, and a volume of transducer material electrically connecting the two electrodes. The read-out circuit is configured to apply an electrical stimulus between the two electrodes of the membrane and to form an electric signal as a response to said application. The volume includes a volume of a first transducer material electrically connecting the two electrodes of the membrane and forming walls of a closed enclosure having each of the electrodes at least partially housed therein; and a volume of a second transducer material, electrically connecting the two electrodes and housed in the enclosure, the electric resistivity of the second material being smaller than the electric resistivity of the first material; and the two transducer materials having a negative thermal coefficient of resistivity TCR.