News tagged with infrared detectors
If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with NASA's Coolest Space Telescope
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 05, 2009 |
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and-a-half years. On about May 12, give or take a week or so, the observatory is predicted ...
Galactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon After All
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have found evidence suggesting that stars rich in carbon complex molecules may form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Up-scale: Frequency converter enables ultra-high sensitivity infrared spectrometry
Aug 26, 2009 |
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In what may prove to be a major development for scientists in fields ranging from forensics to quantum communications, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new, ...
James Webb Telescope components pass tests
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2008 |
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You might think that shaking and freezing a state-of-the-art, meticulously crafted machine is a bad idea. But when it comes to firing telescopes and their instruments into the frigid cold of space, the more ...
MIT quantum discovery could lead to better detectors
Sep 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A bizarre but well-established aspect of quantum physics could open up a new era of electronic detectors and imaging systems that would be far more efficient than any now in existence, according ...
WISE Is Chilling Out
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...
Improved spectrometer based on nonlinear optics
Nov 12, 2008 |
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Scientists at Stanford University and Japan's National Institute of Informatics have created a new highly sensitive infrared spectrometer. The device converts light from the infrared part of the spectrum to the visible ...
Infrared technology aids motor-impaired people
Aug 31, 2009 |
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A University of Toronto professor has found a way for people with severe motor impairments to communicate with the use of an infrared camera.
The future of electricity may be found in environmentally-friendly, thermoelectric cells
Oct 14, 2009 |
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The Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation are funding research that may result in a military turbine aircraft that for the first time ever will produce its own electricity from exhaust ...
NASA's Wise Gets Ready to Survey the Whole Sky (w/ Video)
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, is chilled out, sporting a sunshade and getting ready to roll. NASA's newest spacecraft is scheduled to roll to the pad on Friday, Nov. ...
Amazing minaturized 'SIDECAR' drives Webb telescope's signal
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 20, 2008 |
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Many technologies have become so advanced that they've been miniaturized to take up less space and weigh less. That's what happened to detector controls and data conversion electronics on the James Webb Space ...
Making strides in quantum dot infrared photodetectors
Jun 05, 2007 |
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Researchers at Northwestern University have made significant strides in the development of quantum dot infrared photodetectors -- technology that may provide new imaging techniques with applications in medical and biological ...
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