電子皮膚が軽量ナイトビジョンメガネの実現に寄与(New electronic ‘skin’ could enable lightweight night vision glasses)

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2025-04-23 マサチューセッツ工科大学(MIT)

電子皮膚が軽量ナイトビジョンメガネの実現に寄与(New electronic ‘skin’ could enable lightweight night vision glasses)
Credits:Photo: Adam Glanzman

米MITの研究チームが、厚さわずか10ナノメートルの超薄型電子フィルム「電子スキン」を開発。このフィルムは焦電材料で構成され、冷却装置なしで遠赤外線を高感度に検出可能。従来の重い暗視ゴーグルに代わり、軽量なナイトビジョン眼鏡の実現が期待されている。自動運転車の霧中視認性向上や環境センサー、生体検出、天体観測など幅広い応用が見込まれる。製造にはMIT独自の「リモートエピタキシー」技術が用いられ、基板再利用や他半導体材料への応用も可能。

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冷却不要の赤外線検出のためのエピタキシャル膜の原子リフトオフ Atomic lift-off of epitaxial membranes for cooling-free infrared detection

Xinyuan Zhang,Owen Ericksen,Sangho Lee,Marx Akl,Min-Kyu Song,Haihui Lan,Pratap Pal,Jun Min Suh,Shane Lindemann,Jung-El Ryu,Yanjie Shao,Xudong Zheng,Ne Myo Han,Bikram Bhatia,Hyunseok Kim,Hyun S. Kum,Celesta S. Chang,Yunfeng Shi,Chang-Beom Eom & Jeehwan Kim
Nature  Published:23 April 2025
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08874-7

Abstract

Recent breakthroughs in ultrathin, single-crystalline, freestanding complex oxide systems have sparked industry interest in their potential for next-generation commercial devices1,2. However, the mass production of these ultrathin complex oxide membranes has been hindered by the challenging requirement of inserting an artificial release layer between the epilayers and substrates3,4. Here we introduce a technique that achieves atomic precision lift-off of ultrathin membranes without artificial release layers to facilitate the high-throughput production of scalable, ultrathin, freestanding perovskite systems. Leveraging both theoretical insights and empirical evidence, we have identified the pivotal role of lead in weakening the interface. This insight has led to the creation of a universal exfoliation strategy that enables the production of diverse ultrathin perovskite membranes less than 10 nm. Our pyroelectric membranes demonstrate a record-high pyroelectric coefficient of 1.76 × 10−2 C m2 K−1, attributed to their exceptionally low thickness and freestanding nature. Moreover, this method offers an approach to manufacturing cooling-free detectors that can cover the full far-infrared spectrum, marking a notable advancement in detector technology5.

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