13th International Workshop on Advanced Infrared Technology & Applications PROCEEDINGS September 29- October 2, 2015 Area della Ricerca CNR Pisa, Italy ISBN: 978-88-7958-025-0 Fondazione “Giorgio Ronchi”, Firenze CNR-ITC, Sez. di Padova CNR-IFAC “Nello Carrara”, Firenze CNR-ISTI “Alessandro Faedo”, Pisa 13th International Workshop on Advanced Infrared Technology & Applications PROCEEDINGS Edited by: Laura Ronchi, Paolo Bison, Mario D’Acunto, Davide Moroni, Valentina Raimondi, Ovidio Salvetti, Xavier Maldague, Antoni Rogalski, Takahide Sakagami, Marija Strojnik General Chair L. Ronchi Abbozzo Co-Chairs P. Bison, CNR-ITC, Padova, Italy M. D’Acunto, CNR-ISM, Rome, Italy X. Maldague, Laval University, Quebec, Canada D. Moroni, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy V. Raimondi, CNR-IFAC, Firenze, Italy A. Rogalski, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland T. Sakagami, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan M. Strojnik, CIO, Leon Gto, Mexico Scientific Committee D. Balageas, ONERA, France C. Corsi, CREO, Italy E. Dereniak, Univ. of Arizona, USA C.T. Elliott, Heriot-Watt Univ., Scotland. C. Maierhofer, BAM, Germany C. Meola, Univ. of Naples, Italy G. Paez, CIO, Mexico I. Pippi, CNR-IFAC, Italy H. Rutt, Southampton University, UK O. Salvetti, CNR-ISTI, Italy J.L. Tissot, ULIS, Veurey Voroize, France V.P. Vavilov, Tomsk University, Tomsk, Russia H. Zogg, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland Organizing &Technical Secretariat F. Pardini, CNR-ISTI, Italy A.M. Meriggi, Fondazione “Giorgio Ronchi”, Firenze, Italy E. Ricciardi, C.O.C.E.S., Italy M. Tampucci, CNR-ISTI, Italy M. Volinia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Table of Contents Session: Systems and applications in near-, mid- and far-infrared - Part I C. Corsi Infrared sensors' history in Italy 2 Yingjie Ma, Yonggang Zhang, Yi Gu, Xingyou Chen, Li Zhou, Suping Xi, Hsby Li and Aizhen Li Control the operating voltage and gain slope of InAlAs/InGaAs avalanche photodetectors 3 Songmin Zhou, Bin Weng and Chun Lin The PN junction width of HgCdTe conversed through ion implantation and ion beam etching 6 Session: Systems and applications in near-, mid- and far-infrared - Part II Michal Švantner, Zdeněk Veselý and Lukáš Muzika Depth limits of flash-pulse IRNDT method for low- and high-diffusivity materials 11 A. G. Unil Perera, Yan-Feng Lao, L. H. Li, S. P. Khanna and E. H. Linfield Tunable hot-carrier photodectectors Zhizhong Bai, Chen J., Xu Zh., Zhou Y., Xu G. and Zhu H. Investigation of High Quantum Efficiency Resonant Cavity Enhanced InAs/GaSb type II Superlattice Long Wavelength Infrared Detectors 16 20 Session: Aerospace and industrial applications Louis-Daniel Théroux, Jean Dumoulin and Erick Merliot Automatic installation of thermoplastic CFRP monitored by infrared thermography for pipelines 24 Eric Johnson and Yong Kim Thermographic Testing of Microwave Circulator Adhesive Bonds 28 Donatella Guzzi, Cinzia Lastri, Vanni Nardino, Lorenzo Palombi, Ivan Pippi, Valentina Raimondi and Alessandro Barducci Compressive sensing and its potential for infrared applications 32 Daiki Shiozawa, Tsuyoshi Inagawa, Atsushi Akai and Takahide Sakagami (invited lecture) Accuracy improvement of dissipated energy measurement and fatigue limit estimation by using phase information 36 V Session: Environmental monitoring - Part I Veronica Redaelli, Gaia Dominique Bariffi, Silvia Mazzola, Raffaella Rossi, Leonardo Nanni Costa and Fabio Luzi Infrared termography (IRT) in horses trained for endurance races 41 Alessandro Bortolin, Paolo Bison, Gianluca Cadelano, Giovanni Ferrarini, Lei Lei and Xavier Maldague Mapping the heat flux of an insulated small container by infrared thermography 45 Susana Lagüela, Natalia Caparrini and Luján López Evaluation of infrared thermography as standalone technique for detection of sedimentpollution in water 49 Francesco Salamone, Ludovico Danza, Italo Meroni and Maria Cristina Pollastro Design and optimization through thermography: nEMoS architecture 53 Matteo Ghellere, Alice Bellazzi, Lorenzo Belussi and Italo Meroni Urban monitoring from infrared satellite images 59 Session: Environmental monitoring - Part II M. Miguel Valero, Oriol Rios, Elsa Pastor and Eulàlia Planas Automatic detection of wildfire active fronts from aerial thermal infrared images 63 Fabio Sansivero and Giuseppe Vilardo Advances in automated processing of thermal infrared images from Osservatorio Vesuviano TIR permanent surveillance network at Campi Flegrei (Pozzuoli, Italy) 68 Atsushi Hashimoto, Ken-Ichiro Suehara and Takaharu Kameoka Applications of infrared spectroscopic techniques to quality evaluation in agriculture and food process 72 Barbara Bukowska-Belniak, Andrzej Leśniak and Daniel Kessler Thermographical monitoring of leak processes in embankments Rebecca Whetton, Toby Waine and Abdul Mouazen A practical approach to In-situ hyperspectral imaging of wheat crop canopies 76 Marc-André Gagnon, Pierre Tremblay, Simon Savary, Marc Duval, Vincent Farley, Philippe Lagueux, Éric Guyot and Martin Chamberland Airborne thermal infrared hyperspectral imaging for mineral mapping 83 79 Session: Advanced technology and materials - Part I Małgorzata Kopytko and Antoni Rogalski (invited lecture) 87 HgCdTe barrier infrared detectors Yoshifumi Ohbuchi, Nobuaki Nagatomo and Hidetoshi Sakamoto 91 Thermal image analysis of plastic deformation and fracture beaviors by thermo-video system Hai Zhang, Wolfgang Holub, Ulf Hassler and Xavier Maldague 95 Micro-laser Line Thermography and High Resolution X-ray Tomography on Micro-porosities: A Comparative Study of Experiments and Simulation VI Jianxin Chen, Zhicheng Xu, Yi Zhou, Fangfang Wang, Jiajia Xu and Li He 99 LWIR InAs/GaSb Superlattice Photodiodes with Different Barrier Structures Session: Biomedical applications - Part I Mario D'Acunto, Antonio Cricenti, Marco Luce, Davide Moroni and Ovidio Salvetti 103 NIR window and Near-Field detection of gold nanoshells Steffen Frahm, Carsten Dahl Mørch, Ole Kæseler Andersen and Lars Arendt-Nielsen 107 Temperature controlled laser stimulator for pain research Marco Gargano, Nicola Ludwig, Athos Trecroci, Damiano Formenti, Andrea Bosio, Ermanno Rampinini and Giampietro Alberti 111 Skin temperature dynamics during an incremental maximal test in elite male cyclists Session: Advanced technology and materials - Part II Alessandro Tredicucci (invited lecture) 114 Graphene-based devices for Terahertz photonics Elżbieta A Pieczyska, Maria Staszczak, Michał Maj, Katarzyna Kowalczyk-Gajewska, Dominik Kukla, Hisaaki Tobushi and Shunichi Hayashi 115 Infrared thermography analysis of thermomechanical shape memory polymer behavior – initial loading stage A. Amato, A.S. Aricò, M. Lo Faro, R. Montanini, S.A. Piccolo, A. Quattrocchi, G. Squadrito, S. Trocino and S.C. Zignani 119 Infrared thermography applied to solid oxide fuel cells at operating temperatures Mustafa Hostut, Yuksel Ergun, Sezai Elagoz, Abidin Kilic, Tunay Tansel and Atilla Aydinli 123 Electrical Performance of N-Structure T2SL Photodetectors Antonio Cricenti and Marco Luce 127 Infrared scanning near-field optical microscopy in material science and biology Pawel Madejczyk, Waldemar Gawron, Piotr Martyniuk, Artur Keblowski, Wioletta Pusz, Jaroslaw Pawluczyk, Malgorzata Kopytko, Antoni Rogalski and Jozef Piotrowski 129 The focus on engineering steps for high temperature HgCdTe photodiodes optimization. Session: Biomedical applications - Part II Chi-En Lee and Chung-Ming Chen 133 The automated marker-free longitudinal IR breast image registration algorithm Cuc Stanca, Prodan Doina, Sarosi Codruta, Saplontai Aniela, Silaghi-Dumitrescu Laura, Prejmerean Vasile and Moldovan Marioara 138 Degradation of some experimental dental composite materials Mihaela Streza, Dorin Dadarlat, Doina Prodan, Ioana Hodisan, Cristina Prejmerean and Stanca Boboia 142 Adhesion studies of dental sealants to enamel by using optical microscopy and lock-in infrared thermography VII Cristina Prejmerean, Doina Prodan, Mihaela Vlassa, Tinca Buruiana, Loredana Colceriu and Marioara Moldovan 147 Influence of composition and light curing modes upon the degree of conversion of dental giomers evaluated by FTIR spectroscopy Bardia Yousefi, Julien Fleuret, Seyed Alireza Ghaffari, Simon Fréchet, Félix Labrie Larrivée, Marcelo Sung Ma Jo, Xavier Maldague and Raymon Watts 152 Unsupervised Automatic tracking of Thermal changes in Human Body Session: Advanced technology and materials - Part III Marija Strojnik and Gonzalo Paez (invited lecture) 157 Propagation of thermal pulse in tissue Rosa De Finis, Davide Palumbo, Francesco Ancona and Umberto Galietti 162 New thermal method to assess endurance limit of stainless steels Changzhi Shi, Chun Lin, Yanfeng Wei, Lu Chen, Mingxing Zhu and Quanzhi Sun 167 Barrier Layer Induced Channeling Effect of As Ion-implantation in HgCdTe and Its Influences on Electrical Properties of p-n Junctions Konstantin Petrosyants and Igor Kharitonov 171 Analysis of temperature-current rise in modern pcb traces by means of thermography Valeri Kotelnikov and Elena Ryazanova 175 Method of 3d solar energy conversion Changzhi Shi, Chun Lin, Yanfeng Wei, Lu Chen, Mingxing Zhu and Quanzhi Sun 179 Influences of Ion Beam Current on Dopant Profiles and Barrier Layer Induced Channeling Effect in Arsenic Implanted HgCdTe Epilayer Session: Biomedical applications - Part III Trabelsi Hedi, Elkadri Noomene and Sediki Ezeddine 183 Detection of abnormalities under skin tissue by thermography Maryam Asrar and Amin Al-Habaibeh 186 A comparison between Visual, Near-infrared and Infrared Images for the Detection of Veins Renée Lampe, Blumenstein Tobias, Varvara Turova and Ana Alves Pinto 190 Sensomotor waistcoat – a helpful tool for blind people and children with cerebral palsy to support space perception and improve body scheme Slokom Nesrine, Zghal Imen and Trabelsi Hedi 194 Detection and Quantification of Macular Edema from Optical Coherence Tomography Images Bushra Jalil, Ovidio Salvetti, Valentina Hartwig , L. Potì and A. L’Abbate 201 Infrared imaging to study hand skin microcirculation in healthy and systemic sclerosis volunteer Session: Image processing and data analysis - Part I Simone Boccardi, Carosena Meola and Giovanni Maria Carlomagno 206 Measurements with a QWIP infrared camera: signal treatment and noise correction VIII Piotr Hellstein and Mariusz Szwedo 210 IR3D Analysis - three-dimensional imaging in active thermography and non-destructive testing Gerhard Traxler and Amirreza Baghbanpourasl 214 Monitoring of the cross wedge rolling process by thermographY Olivier Janssens, Lothar Verledens, Raiko Schulz, Veerle Ongenae, Kurt Stockman, Mia 220 Loccufier, Rik Van de Walle and Sofie Van Hoecke Infrared and Vibration Based Bearing Fault Detection Using Neural Networks Session: Non destructive test and evaluation - Part I Kwang-Hee Im, Je-Woung Park, In-Young Yang, Jeong-An Jung, David K. Hsu and Sun- 224 Kyu Kim Characterization of terahertz penetration and applications for composite materials Takahide Sakagami, Daiki Shiozawa, Yoshitaka Tamaki, Hiroki Ito, Akihisa Moriguchi, Tatsuya Iwama, Kazuyoshi Sekine and Teruya Shiomi 229 Nondestructive detection of corrosion damage under corrosion protection coating using infrared thermography and terahertz imaging Henrique Fernandes, Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo and Xavier Maldague 234 Carbon fiber composites inspection and defect characterization using active infrared thermography Eva Barreira, Elton Bauer, Niubis Mustelier and Vasco P. Freitas 242 Measurement of materials emissivity – Influence of the procedure Session: Non destructive test and evaluation - Part II Fariba Khodayar, Saeed Sojasi and Xavier Maldague Infrared Thermography and NDT: 2050 Horizon 246 Rachael Tighe, Janice Dulieu-Barton and Simon Quinn 247 Stress based NDE using infrared thermography Hirotaka Tanabe, Yui Izumi, Takayuki Hibino, Tohru Takamatsu and Takahide Sakagami 251 Study on heat generation behaviors in Sonic-IR method Giovanni Ferrarini, Alessandro Bortolin, Gianluca Cadelano and Paolo Bison 255 Thermal response measurement of building insulating materials by infrared thermography Session: Systems and applications for the cultural heritage - Part I Stefano Sfarra, Paolo Bison, Alessandro Bortolin, Gianluca Cadelano, Giovanni Ferrarini, Domenica Paoletti, Clemente Ibarra-Castanedo, Xavier Maldague and Fabio Peron 259 Solar loading thermography for architectural heritage surveys: plumb the depth by looking at the façade Iole Nardi, Stefano Sfarra, Dario Ambrosini, Donatella Dominici and Elisa Rosciano 263 Complementarity of terrestrial laser scanning and IR thermography for the diagnosis of cultural heritage: the case of Pacentro castle IX Fabrizio Clarelli, Gabriele Inglese and Paolo Bison 267 Thermography for depth profiling in cultural heritage Session: Non destructive test and evaluation - Part III Paul Toasa and Thomas Ummenhofer 270 Lock-in thermography applied to real time crack detection in constructional steelwork Yui Izumi, Hirotaka Tanabe, Takayuki Hibino, Tohru Takamatsu and Takahide Sakagami 275 Development of new sonic-ir method using ultrasonic wave inputted through water Patrizia Aversa, Umberto Galietti, Vincenza Luprano, Davide Palumbo, Cristina Racioppo and Rosanna Tamborrino 279 Comparison between thermographic and heat flux meter technique: a case study Mohamed El Afi and Sougrati Belattar 283 Infrared thermography applied to characterization of a pipe internally and externally corroded Waldemar Swiderski 288 Detecting Defects in Marine Structures by Using Eddy Current Infrared Thermography Sofie Van Hoecke, Olivier Janssens, Raiko Schulz, Kurt Stockman, Mia Loccufier and Rik Van de Walle 291 Towards thermal imaging based condition monitoring in offshore wind turbines Session: Systems and applications for the cultural heritage - Part II Stefano Sfarra, Eleni Cheilakou, Panagiotis Theodorakeas, Domenica Paoletti and Maria Koui 296 An eye to the future, an eye to the past, thinking to a full-scale restoration process: physical and chemical ndt analysis in cooperation Anna De Falco, Tiziana Santini and Maurizio Sguazzino 300 Applications of the infrared thermography to the assessment of historic buildings: a case study in Pisa Marco Gargano, Nicola Ludwig and Elisabetta Rosina 304 Non destructive characterization of thermal and optical properties on high performances textiles Francesca Pietrarca, Mauro Mameli, Sauro Filippeschi and Fabio Fantozzi 308 Non intrusive wall material recognition through active thermography and numerical modeling Lorenzo Palombi, Monica Galeotti, Emanuela Massa, Roberto Olmi, Marcello Picollo, 313 Alessia Andreotti, Giovanni Bartolozzi, Marco Bini, Ilaria Bonaduce, Emma Cantisani, Massimo Chimenti, Maria Perla Colombini, Costanza Cucci, Ute Dercks, Laura Fenelli, Irene Malesci, Alessandra Malquori, Marco Montanelli, Annalisa Morelli, Sara Penoni, Louis David Pierelli, Cristiano Riminesi, Sara Rutigliano, Barbara Sacchi, Sergio Stella, Gabriella Tonini and Valentina Raimondi The use of IR-based techniques in the PRIMARTE project: an integrated approach to the diagnostics of the cultural heritage X Session: Astronomy and Earth observation Roberto Bonsignori (invited lecture) 317 Satellite remote sensing of Earth thermal emission for weather, climate and ocean operational applications Marija Strojnik and Gonzalo Paez 318 Telescope array for extra-solar planet detection from far side of Moon Anum R. Barki, Kory J. Priestley and J. Robert Mahan 322 An Initiative to Include Coherence and Polarization in Earth Scene Identification Graham Ferrier 326 The Potential and Challenges in the use of field-based Fourier Transform InfraRed Spectroscopy for geological applications Session: Image processing and data analysis - Part II Jonathan Gaspar, Michael Houry and Jean-Laurent Gardarein 330 Wide & accurate thermal control of plasma facing component in fusion facility Qiong Zhang, Frank Ferrie and Xavier Maldague 334 A NSCT-based infrared-visible image fusion approach using fast iterativeshrinking compressed sensing Gian Marco Revel, Paolo Chiariotti, Edoardo Copertaro and Giuseppe Pandarese 340 Stationary Wavelet Transform denoising in Pulsed Thermography: influence of camera resolution on defect detection Session: Non destructive test and evaluation - Part IV Paolo Bison, Alessandro Bortolin, Gianluca Cadelano, Giovanni Ferrarini, Lorenzo Finesso and Ravibabu Mulaveesala 344 Frequency modulated heating source in IR thermography Nobuhiro Shimoi and Carlos Cuadra 346 Comparison of natural frequencies of vibration for a bridge obtained from measurements with accelerometers and piezoelectric sensor Session: Image processing and data analysis - Part III Gabriele Inglese 350 Perturbations of the heat transfer coefficient due to surface damages Nebi Gül and Ali Berkol 354 Improvement of predefined electooptical system performance by a mathematical model for image intensifier tube Kai He, X. Wang, Chun Lin, Qinyao Zhang and Ruijun Ding 358 Numerical method for the capacitance of HgCdTe MIS structure and band-to-band tunneling effect on the low frequency behavior in high frequency C-V characteristics Author Index 363 XI ANALYSIS OF TEMPERATURE-CURRENT RISE IN MODERN PCB TRACES BY MEANS OF THERMOGRAPHY K. Petrosyants1,2, I. Kharitonov1, A.A. Popov1 1 Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics of National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, eande@miem.edu.ru 2 Institute for Design Problems in Microelectronics, Russian Academy of Sciences Higher functionality of today’s electronic products demands high density integration of electronic components. In this field, printed-circuit-board (PCB) are the perspective technology to build a variety of electronic systems for different applications. Two types of boards were investigated: high current for power applications and high density boards for modern electronic equipment. The set of IR images and temperature-current diagrams for different substrate materials were investigated. Current and temperature limits for all test boards were defined to provide high level of board reliability. Introduction The global trend in the electronic industry driven by automotive, aerospace, computer, telecommunication, hand held equipment and other products is showing up in improved performance and better human interface. So the electronic equipment is demanding miniaturization and function integration. In this field, printed-circuit-board (PCB) embedding technology has the potential to play the important role with the possibility to build a variety of electronic modules and systems for different applications. However, miniaturization and function integration increase the equipment power density and as a result - increase the operating temperatures of electronic components and current caring traces. These factors decrease the reliability and life time of electronic equipment. So the very important problem of PCB design is the thermal analysis to provide the optimal technology solution. The thermal effects in active and passive electronic components were completely investigated and analyzed [1,2]. But the physical and technological limitations in modern PCB copper traces in the context of their thermal stability are still under consideration. A few works where thermographic technique was used for control and monitoring of PCB systems were published [3,4]. The purpose of this work was investigation and analysis of modern PCB current currying capacity of traces (CCCT) in dependence of board materials and trace sizes (thickness, width, length) to provide high levels of electro-thermal stability and operating reliability of electronic systems realized on new boards. Test boards for thermographic analysis of temperature-current rise in traces Two types of test boards [5,6] have been fabricated and investigated: 1) Test board for high current application (power supply units, electromechanical, automotive and other power equipment). The boards (Fig. 1) were manufactured using FR-4 substrate (of 1.5mm thickness) with dimensions 100x200 mm2. The board was manufactured in two versions: with nominal copper layer thicknesses of 18 and 35 μm and traces with the different shapes, widths and lengths. 2) High density boards for modern equipment (Fig. 2). The boards were manufactured using perspective substrates: Al2O3 ceramic substrate (of 500 μm thickness) and aluminium/polymide (240 μm / 4,0 μm) substrate with dimensions 60x48 mm2. Trace parameters: material Ti-CuNi-Au (0,05-2-0.3-0.2 μm), length L = 1,5 – 28 mm, widths W = 150 - 530 μm. 171 Thermographic analysis of temperaturecurrent rise in test PCB traces Thermographic analysis of temperature-current rise in PCB traces was conducted using Flir A40 IR camera with macro (17 μm resolution) lens, precise micro positioning system and specially developed software tool (IRDataProc) for object emissivity coefficients map generation and object temperatures correction [7,8]. Thermal images of all conducting traces of test boards were investigated in dependence of electric current. Maximal temperatures of the traces were defined and plotted as a function of electric current. Results for high current test board. The measured I-T characteristics and IR images of traces with different shapes, widths and lengths (see Fig. 1) and Cu layer thickness of 18 and 35 μm values are presented in Fig. 3 – Fig. 4. It is seen from Fig. 4 that (for the same current values) trace “G“ has much more higher temperature values in comparison with the other traces. Results for high density test boards (Fig.2). The measured I-T characteristics and IR images are presented for different trace widths (Fig. 5), ceramic and aluminium/polymide substrates (Fig. 6), trace lengths (Fig. 7). It is seen from Fig. 6 that ceramic substrate provides much more better heat removing for traces in comparison with aluminium/ polyimide substrate. Analyzing the temperature measurement results for traces with different lengths in Fig. 7 it is seen that the maximal length 27.5 mm is limited by the temperature value of 122.4oC. Conclusion Temperature- current characteristics of PCB conducting traces were measured and analyzed by means of thermography techniques for two types of boards: high current for power applications and high density for modern electronic equipment. - Current and temperature limits for traces with different layer thickness, substrate materials, trace widths and lengths were defined based on board reliability. The results allowed to provide recommendations on design of reliable boards for modern electronic equipment. These results were used by PCB designers in their projects. This work was carried out within the framework of the National Research University Higher School of Economics’ Academic Fund Program under grant 15-01-0165 and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research under grant 1429-09145. References 1. D. Wolpert, P. Ampadu. Managing temperature effects in nanoscale adaptive systems, Springer Science+Business Media ,2012. 2. A. D. Kraus, A. Bar-Cohen. 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I-T characteristics for traces E- G (Fig. 1) with 18 μm (a), 35 μm (b) layer thickness ; IR images of traces with the mentioned structures for 7.5A current and 18 μm thickness (c) –(e). 173 (a) (b) (c) Fig. 5. I-T characteristics (a) for high density traces (see Fig 2) with different widths and IR images (for 2A current) for trace placed on a polyimide board for the different trace widths of traces (b) – (c ). (a) (b) (c ) Fig.6. I-T characteristics (a) for high density traces (Fig 2) for different substrates; IR trace images (for current of 1.1A) for trace placed on a ceramic (b) and Al/polyimide (c) substrates . (a) (b) (c ) (d) Fig. 7. I-T characteristics (a) for high density traces (Fig 2) with different lengths; IR images (for current of 1.2 A) for trace placed on Al/polyimide substrate for different trace lengths (c)-(d). 174