基于红外光谱技术的混合气体检测系统概述

为了给从事红外混合气体检测领域的研究人员提供一定的借鉴与参考,针对红外混合气体检测系统中的光学复用结构以及检测方法进行了详细评述。目前,以量子级联激光器(QCL)、带间级联激光器(ICL)为代表的相干光源已逐渐取代热辐射红外光源、红外发光二极管(LED)等传统非相干光源,成为红外混合气体检测中的主流光源。相应地,具有超高探测度和极短响应时间的红外光探测器也逐渐超越以往的红外热探测器,占据红外探测器领域的主导地位。基于“复用思想”的光学复用结构则是红外混合气体检测系统的核心,主要包括单光源复用检测结构和多光源复用检测结构。其中,单光源复用检测结构以其体积小、集成度高等优点成为构建便携式混合气体检测系统的重要选择;而多光源复用检测结构是时分复用、频分复用、波分复用等思想的具体化,并凭借其较宽的光谱覆盖范围、较高的光谱分辨率等优势成为当前混合气体检测系统中的主导结构。应用于红外混合气体检测的检测方法主要有非分光红外(NDIR)光谱技术、波长/频率调制光谱技术、腔增强光谱技术以及光声光谱技术等。研究人员可通过对红外混合气体检测系统各组成部分充分了解后,设计出实用的红外混合气体检测系统,对工农业生产、环境监测、生命科学等诸多领域都具有重要意义。     

History of infrared detectors

This paper overviews the history of infrared detector materials starting with Herschel??s experiment with thermometer on February 11^th, 1800. Infrared detectors are in general used to detect, image, and measure patterns of the thermal heat radiation which all objects emit. At the beginning, their development was connected with thermal detectors, such as thermocouples and bolometers, which are still used today and which are generally sensitive to all infrared wavelengths and operate at room temperature. The second kind of detectors, called the photon detectors, was mainly developed during the 20^th Century to improve sensitivity and response time. These detectors have been extensively developed since the 1940??s. Lead sulphide (PbS) was the first practical IR detector with sensitivity to infrared wavelengths up to ??3 ??m. After World War II infrared detector technology development was and continues to be primarily driven by military applications. Discovery of variable band gap HgCdTe ternary alloy by Lawson and co-workers in 1959 opened a new area in IR detector technology and has provided an unprecedented degree of freedom in infrared detector design. Many of these advances were transferred to IR astronomy from Departments of Defence research. Later on civilian applications of infrared technology are frequently called ??dual-use technology applications.?? One should point out the growing utilisation of IR technologies in the civilian sphere based on the use of new materials and technologies, as well as the noticeable price decrease in these high cost technologies. In the last four decades different types of detectors are combined with electronic readouts to make detector focal plane arrays (FPAs). Development in FPA technology has revolutionized infrared imaging. Progress in integrated circuit design and fabrication techniques has resulted in continued rapid growth in the size and performance of these solid state arrays.     

近红外无创生化分析中集光椭球反射镜参数设计与优化

近红外光谱技术检测速度快,不破坏样品,可在线分析,是血液无创生化分析能够获得应用的最具潜力的方法之一。但是由于人体血液的吸收光谱信号微弱,而常规光谱仪器在近红外无创生化分析中的光能利用率较低,给无创检测技术应用在临床分析上带来了困难。为了解决此问题,利用椭球反射镜的聚光特性,从几何光学角度出发,分析了椭球镜像点位置分布情况,并采用光线追迹方法优化其初始结构,从而将手指漫反射光高效收集到探测器上。通过仿真分析计算,该椭球反射镜的光能利用率比常规无收集装置的利用率提高了近5倍,增强了仪器检测血液吸收光谱信号的能力,有助于提高仪器信噪比。     

Design of mini-multi-gas monitoring system based on IR absorption

In this paper, a novel non-dispersive infrared ray (IR) gas detection system is described. Conventional devices typically include several primary components: a broadband source (usually an incandescent filament), a rotating chopper shutter, a narrow-band filter, a sample tube and a detector. But we mainly use the mini-multi-channel detector, electrical modulation means and mini-gas-cell structure. To solve the problems of gas accidents in coal mines, and for family safety that results from using gas, this new IR detection system with integration, miniaturization and non-moving parts has been developed. It is based on the principle that certain gases absorb infrared radiation at specific (and often unique) wavelengths. The infrared detection optics principle used in developing this system is mainly analyzed. The idea of multi-gas detection is introduced and guided through the analysis of the single-gas detection. Through researching the design of cell structure, a cell with integration and miniaturization has been devised. By taking a single-chip microcomputer (SCM) as intelligence handling, the functional block diagram of a gas detection system is designed with the analyzing and devising of its hardware and software system. The way of data transmission on a controller area network (CAN) bus and wireless data transmission mode is explained. This system has reached the technology requirement of lower power consumption, mini-volume, wide measure range, and is able to realize multi-gas detection.     

Thermophysics modeling of an infrared detector cryochamber for transient operational scenario

An infrared detector (IR) is essentially a transducer capable of converting radiant energy in the infrared regime into a measurable form. The benefit of infrared radiation is that it facilitates viewing objects in dark or through obscured conditions by detecting the infrared energy emitted by them. One of the most significant applications of IR detector systems is for target acquisition and tracking of projectile systems. IR detectors also find widespread applications in the industry and commercial market. The performance of infrared detector is sensitive to temperatures and performs best when cooled to cryogenic temperatures in the range of nearly 120 K. However, the necessity to operate in such cryogenic regimes increases the complexity in the application of IR detectors. This entails a need for detailed thermophysics analysis to be able to determine the actual cooling load specific to the application and also due to its interaction with the environment. This will enable design of most appropriate cooling methodologies suitable for specific scenarios. The focus of the present work is to develop a robust thermo-physical numerical methodology for predicting IR cryochamber behavior under transient conditions, which is the most critical scenario, taking into account all relevant heat loads including radiation in its original form. The advantage of the developed code against existing commercial software (COMSOL, ANSYS, etc.), is that it is capable of handling gas conduction together with radiation terms effectively, employing a ubiquitous software such as MATLAB. Also, it requires much smaller computational resources and is significantly less time intensive. It provides physically correct results enabling thermal characterization of cryochamber geometry in conjunction with appropriate cooling methodology. The code has been subsequently validated experimentally as the observed cooling characteristics are found to be in close agreement with the results predicted using the developed model thereby proving its efficacy.     

Noncontact localized internal infrared radiation measurement using an infrared point detector

The techniques for temperature measurement within the human body are important for clinical applications. A method for noncontact local infrared (IR) radiation measurements was investigated deep within an object to simulate how the core human body temperature can be obtained. To isolate the IR light emitted from a specific area within the object from the external noise, the radiating IR light was detected using an IR point detector, which comprises a pinhole and a thermopile positioned at an imaging relation with the region of interest within the object. The structure of the helical filament radiating IR light inside a light bulb was thermally imaged by scanning the bulb in two dimensions. Moreover, this approach was used to effectively measure IR light in the range of human body temperature using a glass plate placed in front of the heat source, mimicking the ocular fundus.     

Antireflection properties of germanium–carbon coating on zinc supplied substrate

In this research, germanium–carbon coatings were deposited on ZnS and glass substrates by a RF plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition method using GeH₄ and CH₄ as precursors. ZnS/Ge_1?xC_x double-layer antireflection coating with optical thickness of one quarter wavelength was designed. The samples were characterized by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy and nanoindentation. The coatings exhibited a structure free of pores with a very good adhesion to substrate. Based on the XRD patterns, no diffraction peak was found, so all the coatings mainly had an amorphous structure. The infrared (IR) transmittance spectrum show that the maximum IR transmittance in the band of 1030–1330 cm^?1 was about 84.6%, which is higher than ZnS substrate by 10%. In addition, the reflection of ZnS substrate is about 25%. This system has reduced the reflection from the substrate by 15%.     

High-performance integrating infrared detector

Improvement in the performance of a Si: P integrating infrared (IR) detector are described. The detector has the structure of a p-i-n diode but the mode of IR detection involves photoemission of charge stored in localized impurity states in the i-region at low temperatures. After IR exposure, the remaining occupied localized states are field ionized. In order to measure the remaining charge, the transient field ionization current is digitized and integrated. Increased quantum efficiency is obtained by increasing the photosensitive i-region thickness and impurity concentration. With increasing impurity concentration, the quantum efficiency of a 110 μm thick detector can be increased from 0.5% to about 70% in the neighborhood of 27 μm while the maximum charge storage time (IR integration time) decreased from more than 12 h to about l s.     

La détection infrarouge avec les plans focaux non refroidis : état de l'artUncooled focal plane infrared detectors: the state of the art

The emergence of uncooled detectors has opened new opportunities for IR detection for both military and commercial applications. Development of such devices involves a lot of trade-offs between the different parameters that define the technological stack. These trade-offs explain the number of different architectures that are under worldwide development. The key factor is to find a high sensitivity and low noise thermometer material compatible with silicon technology in order to achieve high thermal isolation in the smallest area as possible. Ferroelectric thermometer based hybrid technology and electrical resistive thermometer based (microbolometer) technology are under development. LETI and ULIS have chosen from the very beginning to develop first a monolithic microbolometer technology fully compatible with commercially available CMOS technology and secondly amorphous silicon based thermometer. This silicon approach has the greatest potential for reducing infrared detector manufacturing cost. After the development of the technology, the transfer to industrial facilities has been performed in a short period of time and the production is now ramping up with ULIS team in new facilities. LETI and ULIS are now working to facilitate the IRFPA integration into equipment in order to address a very large market. Achievement of this goal needs the development of smart sensors with on-chip advanced functions and the decrease of manufacturing cost of IRFPA by decreasing the pixel pitch and simplifying the vacuum package. We present in this paper the technology developed by CEA/LETI and its improvement for being able to designs 384×288 and 160×120 arrays with a pitch of 35 μm. Thermographic application needs high stability infrared detector with a precise determination of the amount of absorbed infrared flux. Hence, infrared detector with internal temperature stabilized shield has been developed and characterized. These results will be presented. To cite this article: J.-L. Tissot, C. R. Physique 4 (2003).     

A super-pixel QWIP focal plane array for imaging multiple waveband temperature sensor

The multi-waveband temperature sensor (MWTS) array, in which each super-pixel (2 × 2 pixel cell) operates at four distinct thermal infrared (IR) wavebands is being developed. Using this high spatial resolution, four-band thermal IR band detector array, accurate temperature measurements on the surface of an object can be made without prior knowledge of its exact emissivity. This multi-band detector involves intersubband transition in III–V semiconductor-based quantum layered structures. Each detector stack absorbs photons within the specified wavelength band while allowing the transmission of photons in other spectral bands, thus efficiently permitting multi-band detection. This produces multiple, spectrally resolved images of the scene that are recorded simultaneously in a single snapshot on the FPA. From the multispectral images and calibration information about the system, computational algorithms are used to evaluate the temperature on the surface of a target.     

Photoresistor based on ZnO nanorods grown on a p-type silicon substrate

In this work we discuss a method of preparation of a highly sensitive light detector based on ZnO nanorods. A photoresistor constructed by us is based on a heterojunction between high quality ZnO nanorods and high resistivity p-type Si used as a substrate for nanorods’ deposition. ZnO nanorods are grown by a modified version of a microwave assisted hydrothermal method which allows for growth of high quality ZnO nanorods in a few minutes. The obtained photoresistor responds to a wide spectral range of light starting from near infrared (IR) to ultraviolet (UV). Properties of the detector are evaluated. We propose the use of the detector as an optical switch.     

光学读出非制冷红外成像技术的光学灵敏度分析

不同于传统的非制冷红外成像技术,提出了基于微电子机械系统(MEMS)的新概念光学读出非制冷红外成像技术。它的光学读出系统基于空间刀口滤波原理,具有高灵敏度、高分辨率和高抗震性等优点,但同时也受到了反光板的弯曲变形、粗糙度等复杂因素的影响。在大量实验数据的基础上,利用夫琅禾费近场衍射理论,建立了复杂因素下光学灵敏度的理论分析模型,详细分析了刀口滤波位置、反光板的长度、曲率半径、粗糙度、LED光源的强度以及扩展宽度等对光学灵敏度的影响,并提出了通过极限操作使系统的光学灵敏度最大化的光学优化方法。     

机载红外热像仪探测海面温度场的仿真计算

通过建立海洋背景下的红外辐射模型，对机栽红外探测系统所获得的热图进行了仿真计算，提出了一种从探测器红外焦平面上的探测像元到海面红外辐射单元的映射方法。利用MODTRAN软件计算了被探测海域各红外辐射单元通过大气传输后最终到达机载红外热像仪探测像元的红外辐射强度，最后利用Visual ＋＋结合计算机图形学方法实现了红外热图的仿真计算。仿真结果基本反映了海面温度场的红外特性。     

Room temperature electroluminescence from ZnO/Si heterojunction devices grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition

Heterojunction light-emitting diodes with ZnO/Si structure were fabricated on both high-resistivity (p) and low-resistivity (p⁺) Si substrates by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition technology. Fairly good rectifications were observed from the current-voltage curves of both heterojunctions. Ultraviolet (UV) and blue-white electroluminescence (EL) from ZnO layer were observed only from ZnO/p⁺-Si heterojunction under forward bias at room temperature (RT), while strong infrared (IR) EL emissions from Si substrates were detected from both ZnO/p-Si and ZnO/p⁺-Si heterojunctions. The UV and IR EL mechanisms have been explained by energy band structures. The realization of RT EL in UV-visible and IR region on Si substrate has great applicable potential for Si-based optoelectronic integrated circuits.     

Extremely wide band Rayleigh resonant reflector with sharp angular spectra in near infrared wavelength band

In this paper, we propose an extremely broadband Rayleigh resonant reflector with sharp angular spectra operating in near infrared wavelength band, this device consisting of a single germanium resonant grating layer is designed and analyzed by using with the rigorous vector diffraction theory. At the Rayleigh angle, the first diffracted order can be appear from evanescent to a propagating one, thus, a very sharp angular spectrum characteristics can be presented in the device. Based on the guided mode resonant effect, high index material such as silicon and germanium can be designed as wide band reflector, beam splitter and polarizer in near infrared wavelength region. Through connecting Rayleigh phenomena and guided mode resonant effect, we can design a new kind of optical devices with versatile characteristics such as sharp angular spectra and extremely wide reflection band. In this paper, we present a Rayleigh resonant reflector with extremely high reflection (R > 99.5%) for TE polarization light over ∼600 nm wavelength range and sharp angular spectral distribution. In addition, it is shown from our calculations that the high-index nano-layer located adjacent to the substrate is seen to critically affect the resulting spectra of Rayleigh resonant reflector.     

利用BFEL研究高温超导钇钡铜氧薄膜的中远红外特性

 报导了一种钇钡铜氧（YBCO）高温超导薄膜中远红外光探测器。在中远红外波段，利用北京自由电子激光对其响应特性进行了实验研究。对于微桥尺寸为210μm×70μm×0.3μm的样品,测量了电压响应、谱响应和时间响应。实验表明，在液氮温度下工作的YBCO高温超导光探测器不仅具有快速响应、较高灵敏度的特点，而且具有良好的宽带特性和较好的稳定性。     

红外探测系统的激光辐照热效应仿真分析

为研究红外探测系统受激光辐照后的热效应与二次热辐射对探测器成像的影响,使用Ansys软件对红外探测器进行热辐射仿真和有限元结构仿真;采用黑体辐射定律和DO辐射计算模型模拟计算探测器内光学系统在不同激光辐照度下的温度随时间变化情况以及探测器内部温升对靶面成像的二次热辐射干扰情况;采用热弹性力学模型仿真计算探测器内部的热应力和热变形情况。结果表明:探测器受到1.06μm激光照射,矫正镜激光辐照度在50 W/cm²时,靶面受到二次热辐照度在0.6 s时达到100μW/cm²的量级,使红外探测器达到饱和;探测器受激光辐照后系统最高温度出现在矫正镜中心处,拟合得到系统最高温度与受照时间函数关系,可预测探测器升温结构破坏;最大热变形出现在矫正镜背面中心处,由外向内形成不等附加光程差,干扰探测器的成像效果;最大热应力出现在矫正镜前面中心处,得到最大热应力与激光辐照度间的线性关系曲线,为矫正镜热应力破坏提供预测参数。     

Application of the nitroanisole as an infrared detector used in middle infrared interferometer

We propose the application of nitroanisole as a detector for middle infrared (mid-IR) interferometry or holography. The present experiment utilizes the liquid form of nitroanisole, which has a thermal lens effect, i.e. a temperature dependent refractive index. Since the nitroanisole absorbs IR radiation as heat, it is possible to estimate the IR intensity distribution on the nitroanisole from the diffraction pattern made by visible laser light that is transmitted through the nitroanisole. In this study, the time resolution and the diffraction efficiency of the nitroanisole was measured under various conditions. The experimental results show that the nitroanisole has a time resolution as high as that of a standard video camera, as well as a high diffraction efficiency and the spatial resolution equivalent to that of a conventional IR camera. Furthermore, we confirmed that the phase shift in mid-IR region can be estimated by analyzing the change in the visible diffraction pattern.     

A simulation of the thermal behaviour of the UK-NL millimeter wave telescope

To keep the thermally induced average telescope deformations within 15 m, a thermal design goal has been set which limits the temperature difference between all locations in the panels, backing structure and subframe to 1°C. Temperature gradients are caused by non-homogeneous exposure and by difference in response to a changing exposure for elements with different time constants.Thermal model simulations are used to identify the critical elements in the thermal design of telescope and enclosure. It is shown that an enclosure with a highly reflective paint with high infrared emissivity on the outside surface and an inside zinc coating with low infrared emissivity works as a highly effective radiation shield. A sprayed aluminium coating on the telescope makes free convection the dominant heat transfer mechanism. An enclosure with louvres works as a chimney forcing the inside air temperature to follow the ambient temperature to within a few degrees. The resulting temperature stratification in the area where the telescope reflector is located does not exceed 1.5°C. Structural analysis shows that temperature gradients in the subframe cause reflector surface deformations with a regular pattern, like gravitational deformations, which means that an error budget summation based on independent rms values is not necessarily valid. Knowing the structural analysis coefficients for differential thermal expansion one can decide which time constants in backing structure and subframe have to be matched to achieve optimal performance.     

Infra-red assisted sintering of inkjet printed silver tracks on paper substrates

In this study, conductive silver features using inkjet printing have been successfully prepared and their sintering studied. Regarding conductivity, metallic inks are the most efficient available conductive inks, even if important drawbacks regarding the use of such inks in inkjet still exist. Indeed, the sintering step is an important limiting factor for the productivity and the substrate choice. An infrared (IR) drying method was experimented to optimize the sintering treatment time. Trials with glass and paper substrates were performed and proved that IR drying is interesting to optimize sintering. Indeed a similar level of resistance was obtained for conventional heating (200 °C, 5 min) and for IR radiations within a shorter treatment time (3 min). Moreover, the substrate temperature during the IR sintering treatment was controlled. The substrate appears to be a relevant parameter to optimize sintering because its thermal behaviour directly impacts on the treatment duration. And for the first time a sheet resistance of 1.9 Ω sq⁻¹ was obtained on paper substrate after only 2 min of IR treatment without any observation of substrate degradation. The evaluation of an electrical treatment on the sintering of a nanoparticle film was also performed using a corona pre-treatment. This lead appears to be interesting because the study proves that an electrical treatment can initiate the sintering of silver nanoparticles. The current flow generated by the corona electrodes certainly generates a local heating by dissipation of the conductive pattern. Finally, the solutions presented in this article allow reducing the sintering time of silver conductive inkjet inks. However mainly, it proves that using paper as substrate for such inks is now possible.