Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has expanded its optoelectronics portfolio with the addition of a miniature plastic housing for the rapid prototyping of reflective presence and proximity sensors. The ...

Urban areas without sufficient tree cover are significantly warmer than their surroundings. This “urban heat island” effect mainly results from an absorption of near-infrared (NIR) radiation in ...

Warning signs: the greater blue-ringed octopus changes its appearance when threatened using techniques that have inspired an adaptive infrared reflector. (CC BY-SA 2.5/Jens Petersen) A simple device ...

1300-1650nm light source and photodetector integrated into one package SHIMOTSUKE-SHI, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kyoto Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (President and CEO: Yoshihisa Shinya, Headquarters: ...

Once you have a track and a kart to race on it, what’s missing? A lap counter that can give your lap times in hardcopy, obviously! That’s what led [the_anykey] to create the Arduino-based Lap Timer to ...

The next-generation of label-free chemical imaging has arrived. The Spero-QT®, from Daylight Solutions, is the next breakthrough in high-performance mid-infrared microscopy offering high-resolution, ...

Say I have an IR thermal measuring gun. I point it at things, things that are hot measure hotter. Is there ever a scenario where a hot object measures as not hot? I don't mean some strange situation ...