Sustainable chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers (CHIPs) for short-wave and midwave infrared imaging and sensing

Nicholas P. Lyons; Gerald P. Uyeno; Jeffery Pyun; Robert A. Norwood; Michael E. Mackay

doi:10.1117/12.3054392

Sustainable chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers (CHIPs) for short-wave and midwave infrared imaging and sensing

Nicholas P. Lyons
, Gerald P. Uyeno
, Jeffery Pyun
, Robert A. Norwood
, Michael E. Mackay

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Abstract

Chalcogenide Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Polymers (CHIPs) are a new class of infrared (IR) materials. CHIPs have the highest refractive index (RI) of any transparent synthetic polymer to date (as high as 2.2) and possess superior IR transparency in comparison to classic synthetic polymers due to a very high content of sustainable sulfur-sulfur (S-S), or sulfur-selenium (Se-S) bonds in the copolymer backbone. CHIPs can be either melt or solution processed into optical elements, such as, simple lenses, microlens arrays, phase gratings, prisms, Fresnel lenses or windows, which are directly suitable for IR-thermal imaging.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Window and Dome Technologies and Materials XVIII
Editors	W. Howard Poisl
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510686953
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3054392
State	Published - 2025
Event	Window and Dome Technologies and Materials XVIII 2025 - Orlando, United States Duration: Apr 17 2025 → …

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	13453
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	Window and Dome Technologies and Materials XVIII 2025
Country/Territory	United States
City	Orlando
Period	4/17/25 → …

Keywords

Infrared imaging
high refractive index
integrated photonics
inverse vulcanization
polymer optics
sulfur

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Instrumentation
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Lyons, N. P., Uyeno, G. P., Pyun, J., Norwood, R. A., & Mackay, M. E. (2025). Sustainable chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers (CHIPs) for short-wave and midwave infrared imaging and sensing. In W. H. Poisl (Ed.), Window and Dome Technologies and Materials XVIII Article 134530G (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13453). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3054392

Sustainable chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers (CHIPs) for short-wave and midwave infrared imaging and sensing. / Lyons, Nicholas P.; Uyeno, Gerald P.; Pyun, Jeffery et al.
Window and Dome Technologies and Materials XVIII. ed. / W. Howard Poisl. SPIE, 2025. 134530G (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 13453).

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Lyons, NP, Uyeno, GP, Pyun, J , Norwood, RA & Mackay, ME 2025, Sustainable chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers (CHIPs) for short-wave and midwave infrared imaging and sensing. in WH Poisl (ed.), Window and Dome Technologies and Materials XVIII., 134530G, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 13453, SPIE, Window and Dome Technologies and Materials XVIII 2025, Orlando, United States, 4/17/25. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3054392

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