In using silicon integrated-circuit technology now, we have developed a new detector for the absolute measurement of radiation fluxes by combining a thin-film thermopile with a (meandered) heating element arranged within the receiving area systen following our former thin-film absolute radiometer conception from 1980 . The sensing junctions and legs of the thermopile and the heater are supported on a thin Si.N4/SiO membrane formed by anisotropic etching of the Si base material. The multijunction thin-film thermopile is fabricated from BiSb and Sb in a muitilayer technique by microlithographic methods. The 76 sensing junctions are arranged on the periphere of the receivi area 7 mm in diyneter. The membrane and chip dimensions are 8 x 8 mm and 12.5 x 12.5 mm , resp. It is intended to minimize both the temperature coefficient (TC) of the responsivity and of the calibration of the device. First measuring results of responsivity of the detector, its TC, linearity, time constant and the local distribution of responsivity are represented and possibilities are shown to improve these parameters by choosing appropriate materials for the heater as well as the thermopile.

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Some 30 years after its coining, the notion and concept of intermediality still proves to be of great relevance for many disciplines, ranging from semiotics to communication, media, literary, and social studies. However, in the digital era, intermediality as a work in progress has to meet the challenges of the so-called new media and develop innovative and adequate axes of research. This article presents some basics of the latest state of affairs of intermedia studies and proposes six central axes of future intermedia research. It focuses on the perspectives of an intermedia network history, which will tackle the reconstruction of historical functions of intermedia processes; the blurring of genre patterns; new interactivities; the interplays among medial, technological, economic, and social vectors; and the making of meaning in current media networks. Thus, some (interwinding?) paths of future intermedia studies will be indicated.

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