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Characterization of gold black and its application in un-cooled infrared detectors
| Title: | Characterization of gold black and its application in un-cooled infrared detectors. |
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| Name(s): |
Panjwani, Deep, Author Peale, Robert, Committee Chair Chow, Lee, Committee Member Del Barco, Enrique, Committee Member Schoenfeld, Winston, Committee Member University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2015 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | Gold black porous coatings were thermally evaporated in the chamber backfilled with inert gas pressure and their optical properties were studied in near-far-IR wavelengths. The porosities of coatings were found to be extremely high around ~ 99%. Different approaches of effective medium theories such as Maxwell-Garnett, Bruggeman, Landau-Lifshitz-Looyenga and Bergman Formalism were utilized to calculate refractive index (n) and extinction coefficient (k). The aging induced changes on electrical and optical properties were studied in regular laboratory conditions using transmission electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and fore-probe electrical measurements. A significant decrease in electrical resistance in as deposited coating was found to be consistent with changes in the granular structure with aging at room temperature. Electrical relaxation model was applied to calculate structural relaxation time in the coatings prepared with different porosities. Interestingly, with aging, absorptance of the coatings improved, which is explained using conductivity form of Bergman Formulism. Underlying aim of this work was to utilize gold blacks to improve sensitivity in un-cooled IR sensors consist of pixel arrays. To achieve this, fragile gold blacks were patterned on sub-mm length scale areas using both stenciling and conventional photolithography. Infrared spectral imaging with sub-micron spatial resolution revealed the spatial distribution of absorption across the gold black patterns produced with both the methods. Initial experiments on VOx-Au bolometers showed that, gold black improved the responsivity by 42%. This work successfully establishes promising role of gold black coatings in commercial un-cooled infrared detectors. | |
| Identifier: | CFE0005680 (IID), ucf:50197 (fedora) | |
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2015-05-01 Ph.D. Sciences, Physics Doctoral This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): | gold black -- porous gold -- infrared detector -- infrared sensing -- effective medium theory -- bruggeman -- bergman theroy -- looyenga -- resistive bolometer -- vanadium oxide -- metal blacks -- aging in metal blacks | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005680 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | public 2015-05-15 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
