Patent · US Active

Image pixel apparatus for detecting electromagnetic radiation, sensor array for detecting electromagnetic radiation and method for detecting electromagnetic radiation by means of an image pixel apparatus

US9274003B2 · kind B2 · utility

0Cited by

1References

15Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

Ingo Herrmann · Friolzheim, DE
Christoph Schelling · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 4, 2013
Grant date	Mar 1, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 21, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01J5/20
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An image pixel apparatus for detecting electromagnetic radiation includes an absorption structure device configured to absorb the electromagnetic radiation and to take it up as a quantity of heat. At least one plasmonic resonance structure device of the apparatus is configured to forward the electromagnetic radiation to the absorption structure device. A detection device that has at least one detection element is configured to detect the electromagnetic radiation by way of changes in an electrical property of the at least one detection element that are caused by the quantity of heat taken up.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.