Integrated bolometer for near- and mid-IR sensing application

该博士项目旨在开发用于红外传感平台的新型微辐射热计。该项目是EPSRC资助项目的一部分，涉及来自南安普顿大学、谢菲尔德大学、南安普顿大学医院和国家海洋学中心的研究人员，目标是展示一个集成的红外传感平台。目前可用的红外设备是在散装光学和探测器中实现的，这极大地限制了它们在实验室之外的使用。在这个博士项目中，我们的目标是开发低成本，高性能，硅光子学芯片级探测器（热辐射计），将在近红外到中红外波长区域工作，这种设备将用于测量一系列生物和化学分子对红外光的吸收。

This PhD project aims to develop novel micro-bolometers for an infrared (IR) sensing platform. The project is part of an EPSRC funded Programme Grant, involving researchers from the Universities of Southampton, Sheffield, the University Hospital Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre, with the goal to demonstrate an integrated IR sensing platform.The currently available IR devices are realised in bulk optics and detectors, which significantly limits their use outside the laboratory. In this PhD project, we aim to develop low-cost, high performance, silicon photonics chip-scale detectors (bolometers) that will operate in the near- to mid-infrared wavelength region, and such devices will be used to measure the infrared light absorption by a range of biological and chemical molecules.