Metasurfaces featuring tailored silver nanocubes could allow thermal photodetectors to approach speeds akin to traditional ...

A new ultrathin photodetector from Duke University can sense light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and generate a ...

Electrical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a pyroelectric photodetector operating at speeds far beyond those typically associated with thermal ...

Electrical engineers at Duke University report they have built a record-setting pyroelectric photodetector that uses trapped ...

Using a high-power, pulsed laser to deposit materials from a plasma plume (shown here), researchers synthesized materials to study their unique pyroelectric properties at the nanoscale. "Controlling ...

IRISYS (Infrared Integrated Systems Ltd), Northampton, UK, is promoting thermal technology for intelligent building. Using its own thermal imaging cameras, the company has developed a range of ...

Practical demonstration on setup and configuration of infrared detectors. In theory, the functioning of a pyroelectric detector is absolutely comprehensible. As the centrepiece in gas analysers, flame ...

Vintage computer hardware can fail in a variety of fascinating ways, with [Bits und Bolts] dealing with an interesting failure mode, in the form of degraded MLCC capacitors on Voodoo 2 graphics cards.

Heat sssssensorsss A large-eyed green pit viper. The pit organs are small depressions between the snake's nostrils and eyes. (Courtesy: iStock_TommyIX) Vipers, pythons and boa constrictors all use ...

Air quality is becoming a very widely discussed topic in the context of exhaust emissions from vehicles and factory pollution. During the Beijing Olympics in 2008, factories were closed down and ...