Super Pixel Focal Plane Array Sensor

This SuperPixel FPA (SFPA) will achieve a fast track enhancement of existing technology that effectively allows improved detection and discrimination of existing and emerging threats. Cyan is working with Research Triangle Institute, who has recently developed and demonstrated Lead Tin Telluride (PbSnTe) detectors for high temperature operation and fabrication in a superpixel format. The SFPA with small ¡§superpixels¡¨ will provide for oversampling the diffraction limited blur and this will translate to higher object ID confidence, and hopefully allow better discrimination between targets and decoys for detection of next generation threats. As targets get smaller and as our foes develop techniques for thermal shielding and stealth, the US must develop even more sensitive, higher resolution IR imaging systems.