FLIR’s Indigo Operations is currently housed in four buildings, in Santa Barbara, California.

Detector Operations

Our state-of-the-art detector processing and packaging facilities comprise 45,000 square feet, including an advanced III-V compound semiconductor fabrication line capable of high volume production of indium antimonide (InSb) and indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) focal plane arrays.

FLIR’s unique 8" Micro Electrical Mechanical (MEMS) fabrication line incorporates robotic wafer handling, fully automated cluster tools, a sub-micron photolithographic stepper, in-process critical dimension scanning electron microscope (CD-SEM), and focused ion beam (FIB). FLIR has developed the imaging industry’s most advanced facility capable of high-volume production of two-dimensional microbolometer arrays.

Our high-volume packaging capabilities include high-vacuum, hermetic, and back-filled technologies. FLIR’s component, sub-system, and system products rely upon the advanced detector devices and packages produced in the detector operations facility.

Camera Operations

FLIR Commercial Systems Camera Operations occupies 90,000 square feet of factory space for camera manufacturing, production control, quality assurance, purchasing, shipping & receiving, receiving inspection, finance, and contracts. Support organizations include sales, client services, systems, software and mechanical engineering, new product development, program management, information technology, human resources, as well as our full-custom mixed signal very large scale integration (VLSI) design center. The VLSI designs implemented by our team are fabricated at commercial foundries using standard sub-micron processes. Completed wafers are characterized and probe tested in a wafer test lab that is equipped for fully automated testing of 5" and 8" silicon wafers at production volumes.