Pyroelectric PVF_2 infrared detector arrays

Abstract

Linear arrays of thin membrane (0.5-0.8-microm) pyroelectric PVF(2) detectors have been constructed. The size of each element was 0.1 x 3 mm. The arrays were built with twenty-four channels of hybrid self-scanning electronics and packaged in vacuum containers, D* of 1.5 x 10(9) cm/Hz/W at 10 Hz and thermal cross talk of <15% at 50 Hz were obtained.