WO1996021140A1 - Fabry-perot micro filter-detector - Google Patents
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- the present invention pertains to micro infrared (IR) detectors and particularly to micro IR filter type detectors. More particularly, the invention pertains to Fabry- Perot micro IR filter type detectors for spectroscopic imaging.
- IR infrared
- the related art discloses
- wavelength trimming is achieved electrostatically with a variable voltage.
- the present invention is an encapsulated tunable filter and detector primarily for detecting infrared radiation at specific wavelengths.
- the device has microlenses micromachined into a silicon wafer.
- a Fabry-Perot cavity is integrated onto the wafer.
- the cavity is tunable as one of the cavity mirrors is moveable with a piezoelectric thin film.
- Figure 1 shows a micro filter-detector having diffractive microlenses.
- Figure 2 shows the micro filter-detector having refractive microlenses.
- Figure 3 shows the micro filter-detector without the spatial filter.
- Figure 4 shows a micro filter-detector having a multitude of Fabry-Perot eavities.
- Figure 5 shows a micro filter-detector having a one diffractive lens and detector.
- Figure 6 shows a micro filter-detector having a one refractive lens and detector.
- Figure 7 shows a micro filter-detector having an internal cavity calibration source and detector.
- Figure 8 shows an external calibration setup for the micro filter-detector.
- Figure 9a shows a micro filter-detector having piezoelectric stacks for Fabry- Perot cavity tuning.
- Figure 9b reveals a micro filter detector having silicon etch pits.
- Figures 10a, 10b and 10c illustrate a microlens array, a detector array and a spatial filter, respectively.
- Figure 11 illustrates a micro filter-detector without a microlens.
- Figures 12a- 12f reveal the effect of a microlens and a spatial filter on light entering the Fabry-Perot cavity.
- Figures 13a and 13b of the microfilter illustrate packaging schemes.
- Figures 14a and 14b show two implementations of integrated microlenses.
- Figure 15 reveals a set of transmittance characteristics of the microfilter.
- Figures 16a- 16c show bandpass characteristics of the Fabry-Perot filter relative to the number of layers on the mirrors.
- Figures 17a and 17b reveal the effect of the angle of incident light on the frequency of the filter.
- Figure 18 shows a combination multiple and single filter-detector in use for spectral analysis.
- Figure 19 is a chart revealing absorption lines in a detected sample DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
- Figure 1 shows a polysilicon, piezoelectric-actuated, infrared tunable, Fabry- Perot microfilter with integrated microlenses and detector for spectroscopic environmental monitoring.
- a microbolometer detector 14 which may be a single pixel or an array of pixels.
- Device 10 consists of a silicon wafer with a microlens 16 and a Fabry-Perot cavity 18.
- Cavity 18 is a monolithic polysilicon Fabry-Perot microstructure having silicon dioxide/silicon (SiO 2 /Si) mirrors 20 and 22.
- Polysilicon bridge 24 supports one mirror 22 of Fabry-Perot cavity 18.
- Wafer 32 is vacuum sealed to bolometer detector 24 pixel 14 or array of pixels 14, with a continuos support 30 around the perimeter of wafers 20 and 32.
- Support 30 encloses microbolometer 12 and Fabry-Perot cavity 18 in a vacuum.
- Spatial filter 46 is situated proximate to microlenses 16. Filter
- IR light has a silicon layer 52 which functions as a window for IR light.
- a thin metal film layer 54 such as chrome, nichrome or gold, which has a plurality of apertures 48, each of which have a diameter between 20 and 50 microns.
- Each aperture 48 is focused on a corresponding microlens 16.
- Apertures 48 function as a field stop to limit radiation to microlenses 16 from certain directions.
- Spatial filter 46 is supported on wafer 32 by posts 50. Posts 50 may constitute a ring around wafer 32 to provide a vacuum encapsulation of lenses 16 and apertures 48.
- Detectors 14 may be a microbolometer or other IR detector for IR light, or a CCD array for visible light in which case materials such as transparent silicon dioxide (SiO 2 ) or silicon nitride (Si 3 N 4 ) would take place of the moveable polysilicon structure, and optical materials such as glass or sapphire would take the place of silicon substrate.
- Detectors 14 may be suspended pixels or formed in wafer 12. Detectors may be made from a variety of commonly used materials such as HgCdTe, PtSi or InSb.
- Related IR microbolometer technology is disclosed in several U.S. patents. United States patent number 5,286,976. by B.
- System 10 has thin film micromirrors 20 and 22 which are moveable relative to each other, thin film piezoelectric microactuators 26 for cavity 18 tuning, microlenses
- Actuators 26 are activated with a voltage applied to actuator electrodes 56. As an actuators 26 expands or shrinks, it has a cantilever effect on the supporting portion of bridge 24 since it is adhered to the surface of that portion resulting in a bimorph effect such any change in size of actuator 26 is amplified in the actual movement of bridge 24.
- Piezoelectric actuators 26 fast in comparison to other types of actuators, such as thermal bimorphs.
- Device 10 incorporates monolithic tunable IR Fabry-Perot cavity 18 on a single silicon wafer.
- the structure, containing mirrors 20 and 22, piezoelectric (PZT) actuators 26 and capacitive sense electrodes 28 at the corners of filter 18 on bridge 24 and wafer 32. can be formed by growing films of polysilicon, SiO 2 , Si 3 N 4 , and PZT, and using a sacrificial etch material on one silicon wafer rather than bonding two wafers together.
- Capacitive sense electrodes 28 are implemented for sensing distance between mirrors 20 and 22. As electrodes 28 approach each other, the capacitance between the electrodes increase thereby providing an indication of distance between mirrors of the
- Electrodes 28 may act as a physical stop for a minimum distance between mirrors 20 and 22, which is an indication of maximum capacitance or an electrical connection or shot between the pairs of electrodes 28.
- Array 14 of elements is vacuum sealed to a silicon wafer as a tunable window for an IR detector in an integral vacuum package.
- Lenses 16, which are designed to collimate light through cavity 18, can be fabricated in registry with Fabry- Perot cavity 18. This sort of fabrication is a benefit if a number of smaller cavities 18 is to be used.
- Fabry-Perot cavity 18 formed on a silicon wafer with SiO /Si mirrors, can be tuned over the mid- wave infrared (MWIR) from 2.5 to 5.5 microns band where atmospheric gases have absorption, by changing the gap through a range of distances between 0.2 to 2.3 micrometers.
- Fabry-Perot cavity 18 also can tune over from 8 to 12 micrometers with appropriate changes in the gap of cavity 18.
- Figure 2 shows a device 60 that resembles device 10 of figure 1 except in lieu of diffractive lenses 16 there are refractive lenses 58.
- Each refractive microlens 58 may be different from any other refractive lens 58 in that it may refract light differently from the others.
- Diffractive microlenses 16 and refractive microlenses 58 may be fabricated with binary optical features.
- Figure 3 shows a device 62 like that of device 10 of figure 1 except device 62 does not have a spatial filter 46.
- Figure 4 shows a device 64 like that of device 62 of figure 3 except that device 64 has a multitude of Fabry-Perot filters 74 in lieu of a single
- each filter 74 is situated between each microlens 16 and detector 14. Each filter 74 has a pair of mirrors 76 and 78. The distances between mirrors 76 and 78 of each filter 74 may be different from those of the remaining filters 74. Thus, each filter 74 may have a high transmittance for different wavelength and be tuned for detecting a variety of radiation on respective detectors 14.
- the devices in figures 1-4 may be used without microlenses or a lens and merely have a window 32 as in device 150 which is illustrated in figure 11.
- Any light receiving surface such as window 32 would be coated with an anti-reflection (AR) film 33 to avoid such things as silicon reflection. All surfaces of layers for receiving light, except those for mirrors would have an AR coating.
- AR anti-reflection
- Figure 5 shows a device 66 that is similar to detector 62 of figure 3 except that there is only one detector 80 in lieu of the array of detectors 14. In place of the array of microlenses 16 is one diffractive microlens 82 approximately over the area of detector 80.
- Device 68 of figure 6 is similar to device 66 of figure 5 except that device 68 has a single refractive lens 84 in lieu of diffractive lens 82. Devices 66 and 68 would need a high f number to function effectively.
- Device 70 of figure 7 is like device 62 of figure 3 except that device 70 has an internal reference source 86 of radiation or micro-emitter which may be a laser light source such as a laser diode.
- a transmittance filter 88 or narrow band filter may be used to filter the light or radiation from source 86 to provide a source of light 90 having a sufficiently narrow frequency band for reference and filter 18 calibration purposes.
- Light 90 is reflected by mirrors 20 and 22 of filter 18 and may be reflected out as light
- distance 96 between mirrors is such that filter 18 is tuned to pass a maximum amount of light at the frequency of reference light 90. If distance 96 is not optimal for passing light 90 out as a maximum intensity filtered light signal 92, then cavity calibration control electronics 98 provides a feedback signal to electrodes 56 on piezoelectric actuators 26 so as to move mirror 22 on bridge 24 relative to mirror 20 to a distance which maximizes the intensity of light 92 impinging detector 94 and consequently the electrical signal for detector 94 to electronics 98. Thus, distance 96 between mirrors 20 and 22 is kept at an optimum level during temperature variations and other environmental effects of device 70. Monitor 100 may be used to observe and adjust the cavity calibration system.
- a light shield 102 is placed over the microlenses in the area of the calibration light activity so as to prevent interference of external ambient light with light signals 90 and 92, and with the calibration and cavity adjustment activity.
- Emitters 86 and detectors 94 could be located at the corners of the array of the device.
- System 70 may have a plurality of reference light sources 86 and filters 88 of different wavelengths so that Fabry-Perot cavity 18 may be tuned for various wavelengths upon selection. This calibration system also may be applied to device 64 in figure 4, for instance, in calibrating or tuning each of Fabry-Perot cavities
- Figure 8 shows a device 72 which is similar to device 70 of figure 7, except that there is a calibration light source 104 external to the monolithic microfilter detector.
- a transmittance filter 106 may be placed at the output of source 104 as needed.
- Light 90 passes through microlens 108, mirrors 20 and 22 of Fabry-Perot filter 18, out of filter 1 as light 92, if filter 18 is sufficiently tuned to pass light 92, and onto detector 94.
- Control electronics 98 adjusts distance 96 between mirrors 20 and 22 via a signal to electrodes 56 of piezoelectric thin film actuators 26 that move bridge 24 and mirror 22 relative to mirror 20 to maximize the intensity of light 92.
- Cavity calibration electronic 98 and monitor 100 of device 72 function similarly to that of device 70 in figure 7.
- device 72 of figure 8 may use a plurality of reference light sources 104 and filters 106 for emitting light at different wavelengths to detector 94 or different detector 14 so that Fabry-Perot cavity 18 can be selectively tuned for various wavelengths.
- This calibration and tuning system may be applied to device 60 in figure 4.
- Figure 9a reveals a device 1 10 that utilizes piezoelectric stacks 112 on electrode
- Device 1 14 for adjusting distance 96 between mirrors 20 and 22 of Fabry-Perot filter 18. Capacitive electrodes 28 may be used to sense distance 96.
- Device 1 10 may incorporat cavity calibration control electronics 98 and the associated system of devices 70 or 72 i figures 7 and 8, respectively.
- Light 118 comes through microlens 16 into filter 18. If light 118 is of the appropriate wavelength for filter 18, it will pass through filter 18 onto detector 14.
- the lenses on wafer 32 may be diffractive microlenses 16, refractive microlenses, or a single diffractive or refractive lens.
- the array of detectors 14 on wafe 12 may be substituted with a single detector.
- device 110 may be built with materials and dimensions to function at wavelengths other than IR, such as visible light.
- Mirror 22 is formed on a wafer 122 which is supported by posts 124 on wafer 12 containing the array of detectors 14.
- Piezoelectric stacks 112 with electrodes 114 are formed on wafer 120.
- Stacks 1 12 and electrodes 1 14 may form a ring between wafers 32 and 120 to form a wall that hermetically vacuum seals filter 18 and detectors 14.
- Device 110 of figure 9a may incorporate Fabry-Perot cavity calibration systems the same as those disclosed in figures 7 and 8.
- Figure 9b reveals a filter-detector 170 having microlenses 16 formed or micromachined on a wafer 172 made of silicon etch pits 180.
- Silicon wafer 12 is bonded or soldered to wafer 172 at areas 174.
- Spatial filter 54 or, if there is no spatial filter, wafer 52 is bonded or soldered to wafer 172 at areas 174.
- device 170 structurally has three wafers 52, 172 and 12 soldered or bonded together with spacings 178 and 18 defined by silicon etch pits 180.
- Bridge 176 supports adjustable mirror 22.
- Piezoelectric actuators 182 provide the movement for adjusting gap 96 of Fabry-Perot cavity 18.
- the other numbered components are similar to like-numbered components of other devices disclosed in the present description.
- Figure 10a illustrates an array of microlenses 16 on wafer 32.
- Figure 10b shows an array of detectors 14 on substrate 12.
- Figure 10c reveals a spatial filter 54 having apertures 48.
- Figures 12a and 12b show the cone angles of light in the Fabry-Perot cavity 18 without and with microlenses, respectively.
- Light 154 comes through macro (fore) optics 152, and goes on through mirror 20, cavity 18 and mirror 22 as light 156, in figure 12a.
- light 154 comes through optics 152, and goes on through microlens 16, mirror 20, cavity 18 and mirror 22 as light 158.
- microlens 16 passed light 158 has a much less coning angle than light 156 not having passed through a microlens. This effect also is illustrated in figure 3.
- Figure 12c shows an off-axis field point without microlenses 16. The result is a large cone angle of light 160 in Fabry-Perot cavity 18.
- Figure 12d reveals an off-axis field point with microlenses 16. The result is a reduced cone angle of light 162 in Fabry-Perot cavity 18.
- Figure 12e shows a subpixel off-axis field point with microlenses 16 and without spatial filter 54 with a resulting large wavefront angle of light 164 in Fabry-Perot cavity 18.
- Figure 12f reveals the results of light 154 of a pixel on-axis field point and light 166 of a subpixel off-axis field point with spatial filter 54 having aperture 48. Light 166 of subpixel off- axis field points is blocked, and light 154 of pixel on-axis field points passes through aperture 48 of spatial filter 54.
- Integrating Fabry-Perot cavity 18 with detectors 12 and 14 results in a spectrometer on a chip.
- the Fabry-Perot cavity 18 silicon wafer may serve as an integrated vacuum window 32 on a detector array or detector element 14 with posts 34 supporting window 32 and cavity 18 relative to array or element 14.
- This device containing window 32, cavity 18 and array 14 is contained within a package consisting of package window 36, array 14 support 38, containing wall 40 and border seal 42 for containing the spectrometer within the container having a vacuum, is shown in figure 13a.
- Figure 13b shows an alternative wherein Fabry-Perot cavity 18 is bonded to detector 14 using posts 44 which also make electrical connections to actuate the Fabry- Perot cavity 18 silicon wafer 32 that serves as a window integrated with cavity 18 and also serves as a package window and sealing support 30 for maintaining the vacuum for cavity 18 and array 14, which eliminates squeeze film damping and provides for improved bolometer operation.
- the package is integrated with cavity 18.
- microlenses 16 results in performance greater than that which can be achieved with macroscopic Fabry-
- Perot cavities The problem with Fabry-Perot cavities utilizing macro type lenses is that light entering cavity 18 at different angles is detuned off from the design bandpass frequency. When cavity 18 operates over a finite field of view, resolution is degraded due to the various field points passing through the cavity at various angles.
- a solution to this problem is to operate with a narrow field of view or a reduced spectroresolution.
- microlenses 16 to collimate the light from various field points through the cavity and to preserve the resolution even when a large field of view is used.
- Microlens 16 must be designed for a detector 14 pitch and microlenses 16 have the capability to collimate light at the pixel thereby resulting in the use of a finite field of view and the achievement of high-wavelength resolution, which was not possible with macroscopic Fabry-Perot cavities.
- Microlenses 16 can be formed on the backside of Fabry-Perot cavity wafer 32. Silicon wafer 32 may be made thin to achieve closer proximity between each microlens 16 and corresponding detector 14 to avoid beam spreading. Thus, microlenses 16 are formed on a thinned silicon wafer 32. Microlenses 16 are located at the focal plane and detector 14 or array 14 is in close proximity. With a single detector 14, location is not as critical as with a focal plane wherein spatial resolution degrades with distance.
- Figure 14a shows the integrated microlens 16 on an ordinary silicon wafer and figure 14b shows an integrated microlens 16 and a thinned wafer 32.
- PZT ceramic is a common material for driving devices at high speed with modest voltages.
- PZT films provide a number of advantages over the bulk materials. For instance, a PZT bimorph of small size is capable of forces sufficient to move a small mass and thus require little real estate or area in the chip.
- PZT microactuators 26 have such characteristics. Unlike capacitors, PZT actuators 32 retain the majority of the real estate or area of the chip available for IR transmission. PZT forces and displacements are linear with voltage, unlike capacitance actuation in which the forces diminish inversely with spacing.
- microfabricated structures make them compatible with arrays such as IR detector 14, IR emitters and displays.
- arrays such as IR detector 14, IR emitters and displays.
- the ability to mount the Fabry-Perot cavity directly in front of array 14 reduces the cost of cavity 18 and makes possible the use of microlenses 16.
- Wafer to wafer metallic bonding using thin film solders and deposited metal or electroplated metal spacers allows device 10 to be integrated into an integral vacuum package to lower fabrication costs, reduce complexity, enhance environmental ruggedness and provide total wavelength tunable functionality in a single die.
- Squeeze film damping a concern in microstructures, is eliminated by vacuum packaging. The problem with dust particles is eliminated with the mounting of the system in an encapsulated chamber.
- the low mass of structure of device 10 means that active control can be used to rapidly change cavity 18 dimensions. Further, the low mass minimizes sensitivity by accelerating vibration shock.
- a combination of capacitive sense at four corners of the cavity combined with a piezoelectric drive provides active control of cavity tuning and scanning. Active compensation for temperature drifts, vibrations and acceleration is achieved.
- Fabry-Perot cavity 18 mirrors 20 and 22 having extremely flat polysilicon, silicon nitride and silicon oxide structures.
- PZT thin films and sensing capacitors are used for active control such as piezoelectric actuation to tune and control mirrors 20 and 22 of cavity 18.
- Microlenses 16 increase transmission and enhance the spectral resolution of filter 10.
- IR emitters and detectors are microstructures.
- the vacuum encapsulation of detector 14 and Fabry-Perot cavity 18 reduces air damping and particulates.
- Figure 15 shows the tunable Fabry-Perot cavity spectral range with the transmittance of IR radiation versus the wavelength for gaps of 0.20 micrometer, 0.94 micrometer, 1.50 micrometers and 2.30 micrometers, respectively.
- Figures 16a- 16c show the relationships of the transmittance of Fabry-Perot filte 18 (of, for instance, device 62 in figure 3) adjusted for a 9.5 micron wavelength of light versus wavelength, for various mirrors 20 and 22.
- Figure 16a reveals the filtering of filter 18 having mirrors 20 and 22 with three pairs of layers on each mirror.
- Figures 16 and 16c reveal the filtering of filter 18 having mirrors 20 and 22 with four and five pair of layers, respectively, on each mirror. More layers on mirrors 20 and 22 indicate an increasingly narrow bandpass characteristics of filter 18.
- Figure 17a and 17b are graphs of transmittance versus wavelength for filtering light at 8 microns through filter 18 (of, for instance, device 62 in figure 3) having mirrors 20 and 22 with one pair of layers on each.
- the incidence angle of the light rays relative to a perpendicular to the surface of the array of lenses 16 is zero degrees for figure 17a and 20 degrees for figure 17b.
- the 20 degree shift in the-incidence of the incoming light shifts the center wavelength of filtered light by about 1/4 of a micron.
- Figure 18 shows a system 128 which exhibits the use of a system 126 with a Fabry-Perot microfilter detector 130.
- Microlens 132 focuses target area 134 onto an IR microbolometer array or CCD array 136 for positioning target 134 as an image 135.
- Cross hairs 138 focus on suspected pollutants in smoke 140 from a smokestack 142.
- That focused area of crosshairs 138 is reflected by beamsplitter 144 on to a piezo- tunable IR Fabry-Perot microfilter detector 130 (like one of the detectors shown in figures 1-9).
- Spectral measurements of the light are with tunable filter detector 130 for mapping a spectral analysis output 146, which may indicate, for example, parts per million (ppm) of a particular substance (such as 25 ppm of CO 2 ) in smoke 140 broadband backlighted by, for example, ambient sunlight, according to the amount of absorbance of light detected at a particular wavelength (such as at the 4.3 micron CO 2 line).
- Figure 19 is a chart showing absorption lines for various substances as an illustrative sample.
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