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The SuperHawk infrared detector is a 1280 x 1024 array of pixels on an 8μm pitch, manufactured using a Metal Organic Vapour Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE) process with Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT) detector material grown on low cost substrates.
The SuperHawk detector offers four times as many pixels in the same active image area as conventional 640x 512 16μm pitch products. In addition, the SuperHawk offers a 1280 x 720 mode of operation, providing an easy High Definition upgrade in a smaller optical footprint than alternative 15μm Standard Definition products.
Using mesa diode structures, the 8μm pitch pixels in the SuperHawk detector have negligible blur from optical scattering, electrical cross-talk or carrier diffusion to achieve a near perfect modulation transfer function(MTF), resulting in the sharpest images typically characterized by the company’s unique technology.
