The device improvements can be related to more sophisticated designs coupled with different, exotic materials such as VO_x. Oxford Instruments has solutions which deliver the complex structures and high-quality material to enable these device improvements.

Related processes for Infrared Technology include:

• Indium Antimonide (InSb) is used for a wide range of infrared detectors, sensitive to wavelengths up to 6µm.
• Gallium Antimonide (GaSb) detectors span the wavelength ranges SWIR (1-2.5µm) and LWIR (8-12µm).
• Infrared detectors made from Mercury Telluride (HgCdTe, MCT or CMT) are sensitive in both of the accessible atmospheric windows, from 3 to 5 µm (the mid-wave infrared window, abbreviated MWIR) and from 8 to 12 µm (the long-wave window, LWIR).