Infrared sensors and night vision goggles pose a challenge for warfighters. ... "If you need to make these materials on a large scale, it is possible," she said.

NDIR sensors cannot be used to measure gases that do not absorb infrared light. "Diatomic" molecules, such as oxygen (O 2 ), nitrogen (N 2 ), and hydrogen (H 2 ), do not absorb infrared light.

Video: Cloaking System Makes Tank Invisible to Infrared Sensors. By Dan Nosowitz. Published Sep 6, 2011 8:28 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter ...

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully developed a high-quality compound semiconductor material for ultra-sensitive short-wave infrared (SWIR) sensors. The study is ...

AdaSky’s 0.3-megapixel (640 x 480 pixels), 4.3 centimeter x 2.6 centimeter solid-state Viper sensor, which contains no moving parts, operates continuously at 60 frames per second and can ...

Phlux Technology, a Sheffield-based infrared sensor start-up, has raised £9m in a Series A funding round led by BGF to enable the next generation of fibre broadband connectivity.