Readout circuit design for uncooled infrared focal plane arrays

Author

Xie, G.Z. ; Deng, L. ; Wang, T. ; Xu, J.H. ; Chen, X.D. ; Jiang, Y.D. ; Wu, Z.M. ; Huang, C.H. ; Yang, B.C.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microelectron. & Solid State Electron., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

349

Lastpage

352

Abstract

A readout circuit for uncooled infrared focal plane arrays is successfully designed. The principle of the signal processing is studied and proper circuit is successfully designed and made to realize the signal processing. The feature of the signal processing circuit for the uncooled infrared focal plane array depends on the readout circuit.. Readout circuit discussed here is a RC oscillatory circuit. The resistor of the oscillatory circuit is VOx thin film, which is very sensitive to temperature. The relationship of the temperature and the period of the oscillatory circuit is discussed. The signal processing circuit employs the relationship to extract the temperature from the period of the output signal. The imaging processing part uses the extracted temperature information to get the infrared image.

Keywords

focal planes; readout electronics; thin film resistors; vanadium compounds; RC oscillatory circuit; VO; VO_x thin film resistor; image processing; readout circuit design; signal processing; temperature dependence; uncooled infrared focal plane array; Array signal processing; Circuit synthesis; Data mining; Infrared imaging; Optical imaging; Resistors; Signal design; Signal processing; Temperature sensors; Thin film circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrets, 2002. ISE 11. Proceedings. 11th International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7560-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISE.2002.1043015

Filename

1043015