Room-temperature terahertz (THz) detectors indicate a great potential in the imaging application because of their real-time, compact bulk, and wide spectral band responding characteristics. THz detectors with differ...Room-temperature terahertz (THz) detectors indicate a great potential in the imaging application because of their real-time, compact bulk, and wide spectral band responding characteristics. THz detectors with different dimensions based on a micro-bridge structure have been designed and fabricated to get optimized micro-bolometer parameters from the test results of membrane deformation. A nanostructured titanium (Ti) thin film absorber is integrated in the micro-bridge structure of the VOx micro-bolometer by a combined process of magnetron sputtering and reactive ion etching (RIE), and its improvement of THz absorption is verified by an optical characteristics mesurement. Continuous-wave THz detection and imaging are demonstrated by using a 2.52 THz far infrared CO2 laser and a 320x240 vanadium oxide micro-bolometer focal plane array with an optimized cell structure. With this detecting system, THz imaging of metal concealed in a wiping cloth and an envelope is demonstrated, respectively.展开更多
The influence of a rigid spherical baffle on the response of a uniform circular microphone array (UCA) is analyzed and two eigen-beam beamforming arrays are designed in the eigen-beam subspaee derived from the sound...The influence of a rigid spherical baffle on the response of a uniform circular microphone array (UCA) is analyzed and two eigen-beam beamforming arrays are designed in the eigen-beam subspaee derived from the soundfield decomposition. Expressions of white noise gain (WNG) and directivity index (DI) are derived for the designed arrays. Performance analyses are carried out for the designed arrays and compared between those of the delay-and-sum beamforming array using UCA with and without a rigid sphere. Computer simulations demonstrate that the designed arrays have frequency-independent directivity with the cost of reduced robustness at low frequency band. The delay-and-sum beamforming array has constant WNG at all frequencies, while its directivity of which is reduced at low frequency band. The rigid sphere can improve the robustness for all the arrays.展开更多
基金supported by the National Science Funds for Creative Research Groups of China under Grant No.61421002National High Technology Research and Development Program under Grant No.2015AA8123014
文摘Room-temperature terahertz (THz) detectors indicate a great potential in the imaging application because of their real-time, compact bulk, and wide spectral band responding characteristics. THz detectors with different dimensions based on a micro-bridge structure have been designed and fabricated to get optimized micro-bolometer parameters from the test results of membrane deformation. A nanostructured titanium (Ti) thin film absorber is integrated in the micro-bridge structure of the VOx micro-bolometer by a combined process of magnetron sputtering and reactive ion etching (RIE), and its improvement of THz absorption is verified by an optical characteristics mesurement. Continuous-wave THz detection and imaging are demonstrated by using a 2.52 THz far infrared CO2 laser and a 320x240 vanadium oxide micro-bolometer focal plane array with an optimized cell structure. With this detecting system, THz imaging of metal concealed in a wiping cloth and an envelope is demonstrated, respectively.
文摘The influence of a rigid spherical baffle on the response of a uniform circular microphone array (UCA) is analyzed and two eigen-beam beamforming arrays are designed in the eigen-beam subspaee derived from the soundfield decomposition. Expressions of white noise gain (WNG) and directivity index (DI) are derived for the designed arrays. Performance analyses are carried out for the designed arrays and compared between those of the delay-and-sum beamforming array using UCA with and without a rigid sphere. Computer simulations demonstrate that the designed arrays have frequency-independent directivity with the cost of reduced robustness at low frequency band. The delay-and-sum beamforming array has constant WNG at all frequencies, while its directivity of which is reduced at low frequency band. The rigid sphere can improve the robustness for all the arrays.