Infrared radiation detectors

Patent · Tue Oct 02 04:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:5754481

Ball, P J.R.; Dunn, W A.E.

An infrared radiation detector comprises an envelope in the form of a dewar in which a vacuum space is present between an outer wall and inner wall cooled by a cooling element. Gas molecules are gettered from the vacuum space by at least one shaped molecular-sorbent porous body having a major surface which fits onto and is bonded to a cooled surface (e.g. of a radiation shield) associated with the cooled inner wall. The shaped getter body is secured (e.g. by epoxy adhesive) at its major surface to this cooled surface in a heat-exchange relationship so as to be cooled by the cooling element during operation of the detector. The shaped getter body is preferably a moulded annulus of synthetic zeolite material.

• Assignee: US Philips Corporation
• Patent Number(s): US 4474036
• OSTI ID: 5754481
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
ADSORBENTS
CONFIGURATION
CONTAINERS
COOLING SYSTEMS
DEWARS
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ENERGY SYSTEMS
ENERGY TRANSFER
EPOXIDES
GETTERING
HEAT TRANSFER
INFRARED RADIATION
INORGANIC ION EXCHANGERS
ION EXCHANGE MATERIALS
MATERIALS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MINERALS
OPERATION
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
RADIATION DETECTORS
RADIATIONS
VACUUM STATES
ZEOLITES