Journal of Physical Chemistry & Biophysics
Open Access
ISSN: 2161-0398
+44 1478 350008
ISSN: 2161-0398
+44 1478 350008
Hooman Mohseni
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Phys Chem Biophys
Infrared imaging remains one of the most widely used imaging modalities outside the visible spectrum. The longer wavelength of light in the infrared band reduces scattering in many media and hence allows deeper imaging in a wide range of applications, from optical tomography to deep space imaging. In addition, most molecules have vibrational spectrum in the infrared band that enables many powerful techniques, such as remote sensing and hyperspectral imaging. Lastly, the peak black body radiation of objects near room temperature is in this spectral band. Despite such high demands, infrared imagers remain the performance bottle neck in many critical applications. Here novel devices are presented that can address some of the inherent limitations of the existing infrared imagers, including enhanced sensitivity, speed, pixel resolution, and flexible and curved sensor array. In particular, new results from bio-inspired nano-injection detectors show significantly higher sensitivity compared with best existing infrared devices, while in parallel they can produce imagers with very high pixel resolution and frame rates. It will be presented novel flexible infrared imager concept, as well as new results.
Hooman Mohseni is a Professor at EECS Department at Northwestern University, and Director of Bio-inspired Sensors and Optoelectronics Lab (BISOL). He is a recipient of Young Faculty Award from DARPA in 2007. He was selected by NSF as a US delegates in US-Korea Nano-manufacturing Exchange program in 2007, and US-Japan Young Scientist Exchange Program on Nanotechnology in 2006. He received National Science Foundation?s CAREER Award in 2006. He has served as the Advisory Board, Program Chair and Co-chair in several major conferences including IEEE Photonics, SPIE Optics and Photonics, and SPIE Security and Defense. He has published over 110 peer-reviewed articles in major scientific journals including Nature, Nano Letters , Small and ACS Nano . He holds 14 issued US and international patents on novel optoelectronic devices and nano-processing. He has presented more than 54 invited and keynote talks. He is a Fellow of SPIE, a Fellow of Optical Society of America, and a Senior Member of IEEE.