Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low-drift infrared detector
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Application No.: US16191733Application Date: 2018-11-15
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Publication No.: US10337926B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Carl Van Buggenhout , Karel Vanroye
- Applicant: MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES NV
- Applicant Address: BE Tessenderlo
- Assignee: MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES NV
- Current Assignee: MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES NV
- Current Assignee Address: BE Tessenderlo
- Agency: Workman Nydegger
- Priority: EP17202450 20171117
- Main IPC: G01J5/02
- IPC: G01J5/02 ; G01J5/12 ; G01J5/22 ; G01J5/00

Abstract:
A semiconductor device for measuring IR radiation comprising: at least one sensor pixel; at least one reference pixel shielded from said IR radiation comprising a heater; a controller adapted for: measuring a responsivity by applying power to the heater, while not heating the sensor pixel; measuring a first output signal of an unheated pixel and a first reference output signal of the heated pixel, obtaining the responsivity as a function of a measure of the applied power to the heater and of the difference between the first output signal and the first reference output signal; applying a period of cooling down until the temperature of the reference pixel and the sensor pixel are substantially the same; generating the output signal indicative of the IR radiation, based on the difference between the sensor and the reference output signal, by converting this difference using the responsivity.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190154511A1 LOW-DRIFT INFRARED DETECTOR Public/Granted day:2019-05-23
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