HELPING THE OTHERS REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF COOLED MID-WAVE INFRARED LENS

The SOI platform was adopted to facilitate fabrication of enormous aperture lenses. The SOI wafer has a thin layer of silicon dioxide (SiO2) along with a thick Si substrate and buried beneath a thin Si device layer; the system layer will be etched to outline higher facet ratio Si nanorods when the buried oxide offers an etch halt to aid fabrication