Mwir/lwir transparent, conductive coatings
AssigneeGoodrich Corporation
InventorBradley Dean Schwartz
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Abstract
An optical system includes a housing, an imaging device housed within the housing, and a window in the housing providing an optical path through the housing to the imaging device. The window includes a transparent substrate and a coating over the transparent substrate. The coating is made of an electrically conductive semiconductor. The imaging device is sensitive to and the coating is transparent to at least one of MWIR and/or LWIR wavelengths.
Claims21
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The window as recited in claim 18, wherein the coating has its peak transmission in MWIR wavelengths.
The optical system as recited in claim 18, wherein the coating is transparent in LWIR wavelengths.
The optical system as recited in claim 18, wherein the coating includes InAs.
The optical system as recited in claim 18, wherein the coating is doped with at least one of Te, S, Se, Si, and/or Sn.
The optical system as recited in claim 18, wherein the coating includes InGaAs.
The optical system as recited in claim 18, wherein the coating includes InAlAs.
The optical system as recited in claim 18, wherein the coating is formed as a film on the transparent substrate by at least one of metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), evaporation, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), chemical spray pyrolysis, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and/or aerosol-assisted CVD.
The optical system as recited in claim 18, wherein the coating is embedded in a pattern in the transparent substrate.
The optical system as recited in claim 18, wherein the conductive coating is embedded in a pattern in a transparent coating on the transparent substrate.
The optical system as recited in claim 18, further comprising an anti-reflection coating over the coating.
The optical system as recited in claim 18, wherein the coating has a sheet resistance of less than 200 Ohms per square.
An optical system comprising:
- a housing;
- an imaging device housed within the housing;
- and
- a window in the housing providing an optical path through the housing to the imaging device, wherein the window includes:
- a transparent substrate;
- and
- a coating over the transparent substrate, the coating being made of an electrically conductive semiconductor, wherein the imaging device is sensitive to and wherein the coating is transparent to at least one of MWIR and/or LWIR wavelengths, wherein the housing and the window are an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield for the imaging device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.