Objective of SIGMA+ is to protect cities against diverse chemical threats, expanding on earlier SIGMA’s nuclear focus. SIGMA+ expands on SIGMA’s focus on detecting nuclear threats. Block MEMS, a ...

Pictured, right: Block's LaserWarn is an open-path chemical detection system that identifies chemical threats in seconds. Southborough, MA, USA – Smiths Detection Inc. alongside Block MEMS, LLC (Block ...

The military uses smoke grenades to provide cover for people and tanks on the move. But the smoke arms race is on. Increasingly, sensors can now go beyond the visible range into the infrared (IR) ...

The demand for multifunctional, flexible, and high-strength ultra-thin films is rapidly increasing to meet the continuous advancements in electronic technology, thermal management, and aerospace ...

Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, have developed an organic infrared photodiode that achieves record-level sensitivity in devices that are ultrathin and ready to be integrated into ...

(InfraRed detector) A sensing device that picks up radiation in the infrared band. Used extensively for still and video night vision cameras, cooled IR detectors can sense the makeup of nebulae light ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) researcher Debashis Chanda, a professor at UCF’s NanoScience Technology Center, has developed a new technique to detect long wave infrared (LWIR) photons of ...

The devices, which operate on a heterojunction-gated (HG) structure, demonstrate high responsivity and detectivity while maintaining a simplified fabrication process. This approach avoids the ...