Sounds like the work done at Honeywell; see for instance 1992 Hilton Head
Workshop Digest, p. 132.

Luc Bousse

>I just saw a news article on an uncooled imager, which supposedly uses
>vanadium oxide in a micromechanical structure - anybody know where to find
>out about this?
>Thanks,
>
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