SuperHawk

The SuperHawk infrared detector is a 1280 x 1024 array of pixels on an 8 μm 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 640 x 512 16 μm 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 15 μm Standard Definition products.

Using mesa diode structures, the 8 μm 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.