Dr Alan Colli, Principal Engineer at Emberion, together with a team of researchers working at the University of Cambridge (UK), the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO; Spain), Nokia UK, and the University of Ioannina (Greece) in the EU’s biggest ever research initiative Graphene Flagship, has published the results of their joint work on thermal detectors in Nature Communications.
The developed detector technology demonstrates the highest reported temperature sensitivity for graphene-based uncooled thermal detectors, capable of resolving temperature changes down to a few tens of µK. These detectors have applications beyond thermal imaging as their high sensitivity is meeting the requirements the high-end, scientific spectroscopic applications. Emberion owns the industrial rights to the technology protected by several patent applications.
Graphene-based mid-infrared room-temperature pyroelectric bolometers with ultrahigh temperature coefficient of resistance, by U. Sassi, R. Parret, S. Nanot, M. Bruna, S. Borini, D. De Fazio, Z. Zhao, E. Lidorikis, F.H.L. Koppens, A. C. Ferrari & A. Colli. Published in Nature Communications 8, Article number: 14311 (2017). doi:10.1038/ncomms14311
The article is made open access as part of the Springer Nature SharedIt initiative and is available in full text at: http://rdcu.be/oU6v
Official press release by Cambridge Graphene Centre was made on 31 January 2017.