Journal article

Longwave infrared multispectral image sensor system using aluminum-germanium plasmonic filter arrays

NEK Shaik, B Widdicombe, D Sun, SE John, D Ryu, A Nirmalathas, RR Unnithan

Nano Research | TSINGHUA UNIV PRESS | Published : 2023

Abstract

A multispectral camera records image data in various wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum to acquire additional information that a conventional camera fails to capture. With the advent of high-resolution image sensors and color filter technologies, multispectral imagers in the visible wavelengths have become popular with increasing commercial viability in the last decade. However, multispectral imaging in longwave infrared (LWIR, 8–14 μm) is still an emerging area due to the limited availability of optical materials, filter technologies, and high-resolution sensors. Images from LWIR multispectral cameras can capture emission spectra of objects to extract additional information tha..

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Funding Acknowledgements

he numerical simulations were undertaken in the NCI National Facility in Canberra, Australia, which is supported by the Australian Commonwealth Government. This work was performed in part at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) in the Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF). This project received funding from the Linkage Grant from Australian Research Council (No. LP160101475). The authors thank Dr. Nandakishor Desai, Mr. Luke Weston and Assoc. Prof. Karim Seghouane for helpful discussions. NKS would like to additionally acknowledge the financial support provided by Melbourne Research Scholarship during PhD.