Used extensively for still and video night vision cameras, cooled IR detectors can sense the makeup of nebulae light years in the distance. IR detectors are expected for many applications beyond ...

Although near-infrared broadband light emitters have found increasingly ... devices in the Dewar was directly collimated by an HgCdTe detector with a corrected collection efficiency of 10%.

Recently, the group of Prof. Labao Zhang of Nanjing University, together with the group of researcher Haiyong Gan of the National Institute of Metrology, China, have developed a new thermal radiation ...

A group of South Korean researchers has developed an intelligent fire detection technology that drastically reduces false ...

Infrared light requires line of sight to its destination ... that obstruct the line of sight required by infrared. An IR sensor is located near the TV and wired to the receiver, which can be ...

False fire alarms can be a big problem, wasting time, money, and emergency resources. Now, a team of South Korean researchers ...

Schematic representation of infrared spectroscopy. First, a beam of IR light from the source is split into two and passed through the reference and the sample respectively. Now, both of these beams ...

From your smartphone’s face recognition feature to fancy fitness trackers and advanced night vision cameras, many sensors we use daily rely on infrared light detection. For the last eight years ...

Infrared (IR) light is a type of electromagnetic radiation ... "This first-ever mid-IR detection, and the variability seen with the SMA, has not only filled a gap in our understanding of what ...