THE DESIRE TO DETECT ever fewer photons and ions, including some at great distances from Earth, pushes the frontiers of analytical capability. A symposium at Pittcon in Chicago earlier this month ...

(Nanowerk News) CEA-Leti announced today the first infrared imaging array in the 8-10µm band capable of returning an image with a record-breaking minimum temperature difference, or thermal resolution, ...

NASA scientist Xiaoli Sun and his industry partner have created the world's first photon-counting detector sensitive to the mid-infrared wavelength bands -- a spectral sweet spot for a number of ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 123, No. 900 (2011 February), pp. 179-186 (8 pages) ABSTRACT. Flux-dependent nonlinearity (reciprocity failure) in HgCdTe near-infrared ...

Infrared detectors in three scientific instruments used by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have been replaced, after the original sensors were found to have a design flaw. According to a release ...