High speed, high sensitivity thermal imaging

本计画旨在借由使用多孔材料之新颖性，来增加热成像仪之感速积。提高灵敏度和速度的产品将提高热成像仪在运动捕捉和高分辨率遥感应用中的效率。为了开发这些多孔材料，该项目将研究微观和纳米尺度上光学、机械、热和电学特性的相互依赖性。它将建立一个窄带谐振腔探测器，提高灵敏度，并为遥感和气体探测提供光谱过滤。该技术建立在低成本可扩展的全硅平台上。这项技术可造福于道路安全、边境安全、国防、航空航天、遥感和工业监测。

This project aims to increase sensitivity-speed product of thermal imagers by the novel using porous materials. Increased sensitivity-speed products will improve thermal imager effectiveness in motion capture and high resolution remote sensing applications. To develop these porous materials, this project will study the interdependence of optical, mechanical, thermal and electrical properties at the micro- and nano-scale. It will create a narrowband resonant cavity detector which increases sensitivity and provides spectral filtering for remote sensing and gas detection. This technology is built on a low-cost scalable all-silicon platform. This technology could benefit road safety, border security, defence, aerospace, remote sensing and industrial monitoring.