When the liquid level is above the prism, light passes through, but when it’s below the top it reflects more IR light back into the table. Using this information, restaurant staff could serve ...

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 ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.

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

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 ...

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 ...

A group of South Korean researchers has developed an intelligent fire detection technology that drastically reduces the false alarm incidents, which go off in the absence of a real fire, and is on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 are reflected to pass through a splitter and then ...