Helping The others Realize The Advantages Of Cooled Mid-Wave Infrared lens
The SOI platform was adopted to facilitate fabrication of large aperture lenses. The SOI wafer has a thin layer of silicon dioxide (SiO2) on top of a thick Si substrate and buried beneath a skinny Si device layer; the device layer will likely be etched to define higher component ratio Si nanorods while the buried oxide gives an etch prevent to aid