Tunable infrared pixels having unpatterned graphene layer and conductive metasurface

Beechem, III, Thomas Edwin; Goldflam, Michael; Tauke-Pedretti, Anna; Ruiz, Isaac; Peters, David W.; Howell, Stephen W.

Tunable infrared pixels having unpatterned graphene layer and conductive metasurface

Patent · Tue Oct 25 04:00:00 EDT 2022

OSTI ID:1986746

Beechem, III, Thomas Edwin; Goldflam, Michael; Tauke-Pedretti, Anna; Ruiz, Isaac; Peters, David W.; Howell, Stephen W.

A monolithically integrated, tunable infrared pixel comprises a combined broadband detector and graphene-enabled tunable metasurface filter that operate as a single solid-state device with no moving parts. Functionally, tunability results from the plasmonic properties of graphene that are acutely dependent upon the carrier concentration within the infrared. Voltage induced changes in graphene's carrier concentration can be leveraged to change the metasurface filter's transmission thereby altering the “colors” of light reaching the broadband detector and hence its spectral responsivity. The invention enables spectrally agile infrared detection with independent pixel-to-pixel spectral tunability.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

DOE Contract Number:: NA0003525

Assignee:: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC (Albuquerque, NM)

Patent Number(s):: 11,482,560

Application Number:: 16/930,520

OSTI ID:: 1986746

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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