US 9,040,913 B2 · Wavelength-selective, integrated resonance detector for electromagnetic radiation

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention are directed to integrated resonance detectors and arrays of integrated resonance detectors and to methods for making and using the integrated resonance detectors and arrays. Integrated resonance detectors comprise a substrate, a conducting mirror layer, an active layer, and a patterned conducting layer. Electromagnetic radiation is detected by transducing a specific resonance-induced field enhancement in the active layer to a detection current that is proportional to the incident irradiance.

Claims15

Dependent claims

An integrated resonance detector for electromagnetic radiation, comprising:

a substrate comprising an electrically conducting mirror layer;
an active layer on the mirror layer, the active layer being a material capable of supporting electrical current flow;
a patterned conducting layer on the active layer, the conducting layer being patterned to absorb the electromagnetic radiation within a selected range of wavelengths;
and
an electronic circuit electrically connected between the mirror layer and the patterned conducting layer.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/329,503Filed 19 Dec 2011

Published

US 2013/0153767 A120 Jun 2013

Granted

26 May 2015

Term ends

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Classification16 codes

G01J 3/12
Spectrometry; Spectrophotometry; Monochromators; Measuring colours: generating the spectrum; Monochromators
G01J 1/0414
Optical elements not provided otherwise, e.g. manifolds, windows, holograms, gratings: using plane or convex mirrors, parallel phase plates, or…
G01J 1/0429
Optical elements not provided otherwise, e.g. manifolds, windows, holograms, gratings: using polarisation elements
G01J 1/0488
Optical or mechanical part supplementary adjustable parts: with spectral filtering

Wavelength-selective, integrated resonance detector for electromagnetic radiation

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Wavelength-selective, integrated resonance detector for electromagnetic radiation

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Abstract

Claims15