Abstract: A process for fabricating a device for detecting electromagnetic radiation includes the step of providing a detecting element suspended by a supporting pillar. The pillar has a lateral through-aperture formed via a local break in the continuity of a layer of interest, because of the presence of a jut in a vertical orifice.

Abstract: A thermal pattern sensor including a matrix of pixels each comprising: a detection element formed by a portion of a detection material having a temperature coefficient of resistance greater than 0.2%/K; a metal portion configured to heat the detection element; a dielectric portion electrically insulating part of the detection element from the metal portion; and wherein: the detection elements of a same column of pixels all have the same electrical resistance value and are electrically coupled to each other and to a readout circuit; the metal portions of the same row of pixels are electrically coupled to each other; the sensor further includes an electromagnetic shielding layer covering all the detection elements and electrically insulated from said detection elements.

Abstract: A method is provided for observing a biological sample between a light source and a pixelated image sensor, the light emitting an incident light beam, which propagates to the sample along a propagation axis and at an emission wavelength, the method including: illuminating the sample with the source; and acquiring an image of the sample with the sensor, no image-forming optic being placed between the sample and the sensor, the sample absorbing some of the beam, such that the acquired image is representative of an absorption of the beam by the sample at the emission wavelength, the source illuminates an area of the sample larger than 1 mm2, the image acquired of the sample by the sensor corresponds to an area of sample larger than 1 mm2, and pixels of the sensor define a detection plane, the sample being placed at a distance from the plane smaller than 1 mm.

Abstract: The invention concerns a detection device for detecting electromagnetic radiation, comprising a substrate, an array of thermal detectors, each thermal detector comprising a suspended absorbent membrane and a reflective layer. The detection device comprises at least one opaque vertical wall, arranged on the substrate and extending longitudinally between two adjacent thermal detectors, and produced from a material that is opaque to the electromagnetic radiation to be detected.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fabricating a thermal detector (1), comprising the following steps: forming a first stack (10), comprising a thermal detector (20), a mineral sacrificial layer (15) and a thin encapsulation layer (16) having a lateral vent (17.1); forming a second stack (30), comprising a thin sealing layer (33) and a getter portion (34); eliminating the mineral sacrificial layer (15); assembling by direct bonding the thin sealing layer (33), brought into contact with the thin encapsulation layer (16) and blocking the lateral vent (17.1), the getter portion (34) being located in the lateral vent (17.1).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fabricating a detection device 1, comprising the following steps: forming a stack 10, comprising a thermal detector 20, a mineral sacrificial layer 15 and a thin encapsulation layer 16 having a lateral indentation 4; forming a stack 30, comprising a thin supporting layer 33, a getter portion 34 and a thin protective layer 35; directly bonding the thin supporting layer 33 to the thin encapsulation layer 16 so that the getter portion 34 is located in the lateral indentation 4; forming a vent 17, and eliminating the mineral sacrificial layer 15 and the thin protective layer 35; depositing a thin sealing layer 5, blocking the vent 17.

Abstract: A radiation sensor including a plurality of pixels formed in and on a semiconductor substrate, each pixel including a microboard suspended above the substrate by thermal insulation arms, the microboard including: a conversion element for converting incident electromagnetic radiation into thermal energy; and a passive optical shutter including a heat-sensitive layer covering one of the faces of the conversion element, the heat-sensitive layer having a reflection coefficient for the radiation to be detected that increases as a function of its temperature.

Abstract: The invention concerns a detection device for detecting electromagnetic radiation, comprising a substrate, an array of thermal detectors, each thermal detector comprising a suspended absorbent membrane and a reflective layer. The detection device comprises at least one opaque vertical wall, arranged on the substrate and extending longitudinally between two adjacent thermal detectors, and produced from a material that is opaque to the electromagnetic radiation to be detected.

Abstract: A radiation sensor including a plurality of pixels formed in and on a semiconductor substrate, each pixel including a microboard suspended above the substrate by thermal insulation arms, the microboard including: a conversion element for converting incident electromagnetic radiation into thermal energy; and a passive optical shutter including a heat-sensitive layer covering one of the faces of the conversion element, the heat-sensitive layer having a reflection coefficient for the radiation to be detected that increases as a function of its temperature.

Abstract: A method for optimizing values of n detection wavelengths of an optical gas sensor configured to detect n different gases is provided, including: a) calculating a value of a determinant of an absorptivity matrix ? whose coefficients represent spectral absorptivity of each of the n different gases at the n detection wavelengths, the calculating being repeated several times, each time modifying at least one of said n detection wavelengths so the values of said n detection wavelengths are comprised within a range of values for which the spectral absorptivity of at least one of the n different gases is non-zero; and b) determining the values of said n detection wavelengths for which the calculated value of the determinant of the absorptivity matrix ? corresponds to a maximum calculated value amongst a set of values calculated in step a).

Abstract: A sensor of thermal patterns of an object, of papillary print sensor type, including a contact surface to apply the object thereon. The sensor includes at least one capsule sealed under vacuum, arranged between a substrate and the contact surface, suited to exchanging heat with the object and to emitting electromagnetic radiation as a function of its temperature; inside each capsule, at least one bolometric plate, to convert incident electromagnetic radiation into heat; at least one optical filter, to stop electromagnetic radiation in the infrared, each capsule being covered by an optical filter; with reading the electrical resistances of the bolometric plates. Such a print sensor offers both good insulation between the substrate and the sensitive elements, and good mechanical strength.

Abstract: Method for optimising the values of n detection wavelengths of an optical gas sensor capable of carrying out detection of n different gases, comprising the implementation of the following steps: a) calculation of a value of a determinant of an absorptivity matrix ? whose coefficients represent the spectral absorptivity of each of the n gases at n detection wavelengths, step a) being repeated several times, each time modifying at least one of said n detection wavelengths and such that the values of said n detection wavelengths are comprised within a range of values for which the spectral absorptivity of at least one of the n gases is non-zero; b) determination of the values of said n detection wavelengths for which the value of the determinant of the absorptivity matrix ? corresponds to the maximum value amongst the set of previously calculated values.

Abstract: Infrared detection device comprising at least one first bolometer able to detect at least a part of infrared radiation intended to be received by the infrared detection device, and a reading and compensation circuit of a first electrical signal intended to be outputted by the first bolometer, with the reading and compensation circuit comprising at least: one second bolometer coupled electrically to the first bolometer and insensitive to the infrared radiation intended to be received by the infrared detection device; one first reading circuit of said first electrical signal from which is subtracted a second electrical signal intended to be outputted by the second bolometer; one second reading circuit of an electrical voltage at the terminals of the first bolometer and/or of an electrical voltage at the terminals of the second bolometer, comprising a plurality of switches.

Abstract: Infrared detection device comprising at least one first bolometer able to detect at least a part of infrared radiation intended to be received by the infrared detection device, and a reading and compensation circuit of a first electrical signal intended to be outputted by the first bolometer, with the reading and compensation circuit comprising at least: one second bolometer coupled electrically to the first bolometer and insensitive to the infrared radiation intended to be received by the infrared detection device; one first reading circuit of said first electrical signal from which is subtracted a second electrical signal intended to be outputted by the second bolometer; one second reading circuit of an electrical voltage at the terminals of the first bolometer and/or of an electrical voltage at the terminals of the second bolometer, comprising a plurality of switches.