6. Manufacturing principles

6.1 Structure of uncooled detectors

The construction of a matrix-type thermal detector dedicated to thermal imaging must take into account the decisive parameters defined above, and organize them in the best possible way to obtain maximum electro-optical performance. Two types of technological implementation can be distinguished:

• the hybrid structure, in which the "detection" function is carried out independently of the reading circuit to which it is attached, for example by hybridization, at the end of the technological process, or associated in the case of optical reading ( 11 );

• the monolithic structure for which...