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Sofradir EC to showcase its Micro80P uncooled thermal infrared sensor array. Fairfield, NJ (PRWEB) June 04, 2013 For the first time in the US, Sofradir EC will showcase its new Micro80P(TM) thermal sensor array at the 2013 Sensors Expo in Rosemont IL on June 5-6, 2013. The Micro80P is the first in a line of next generation thermal sensors and consists of a microbolometer array having 80x80 pixels with high infrared sensitivity. The Micro80P enables a wide variety of new applications...

The Enhanced EyeR-Core(TM) - a versatile thermal video engine with best-in-class SWaP - is applicable to a broad range of applications; available with either VOx or ASi microbolometer detectors, providing universal form, fit and function (FFF) KARMIEL, Israel, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Opgal Optronic Industries, a leading global provider of innovative infrared imaging solutions, has announced the availability of the next-generation EyeR-Core(TM) thermal video...

Innovation promises better biochemical weapons detection and body scanners, and new instruments for studying dark energy & the structure of the universe. Researchers at the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials of the University of Maryland have developed a new type of hot electron bolometer a sensitive detector of infrared light, that can be used in a huge range of applications from detection of chemical and biochemical weapons from a distance and use in security imaging...

1024x768 infrared images at 30Hz, 640x480 at 60Hz Fairfield, NJ (PRWEB) April 23, 2011 Sofradir EC, Inc. will be demonstrating their new ATOM 1024 High Resolution Uncooled Thermal Imaging Camera at the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Symposium in Orlando, FL, on April 26-28, 2011. The ATOM 1024 (http://www.ircores.com) is the first commercially available uncooled XGA camera available today. Incorporating ULIS's advanced silicon microbolometer technology, the ATOM 1024 is a true high...

XGA format produces high definition 1024x768 images at 30Hz Fairfield, NJ (PRWEB) October 22, 2010 Sofradir EC, Inc. will premiere at AUSA, October 25 "“ 27, 2010 in Washington, DC, the ATOM 1024, http://www.ircores.com , the first commercially available uncooled XGA camera available today. Incorporating ULIS's advanced silicon microbolometer technology, the ATOM 1024 is a true high definition (XGA format) thermal imaging camera specially designed for delivering high resolution images...

Infrared cameras see more than the naked eye and can make road traffic safer. Cameras for the long-wave infrared range, however, have the disadvantage that the sensor requires constant cooling, which adds to the cost and complexity of the device. Now a new type of detector has been developed which functions at room temperature.At night on an unlit country road: the bends in the road restrict the view ahead and, to make things worse, it is foggy. The car driver is exercising all due care and...

To map our home planet, Google Earth depends mostly on satellite imagery for land surfaces and sonar imagery for the sea floor. Maps of the Universe likewise depend on different kinds of detectors for different kinds of features. Maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), for example, depend on measuring minute differences in the temperature of the sky.When astrophysicist Julian Borrill came to Berkeley Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) in 1997, his first...

A team of researchers from the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) and the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS, in France) has developed a "scintillating bolometer", a device that the scientists will use in efforts to detect the dark matter of the Universe, and which has been tested at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory in Huesca, Spain."One of the biggest challenges in Physics today is to discover the true nature of dark matter, which cannot be directly observed "“ even though it seems to...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new imaging system that detects naturally occurring terahertz radiation with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. The technology may become a new tool chemical and biochemical analyses ranging from early tumor detection to rapid and precise identification of chemical hazards for homeland security instruments.Terahertz radiation falls between microwaves and infrared radiation on the...

LABOCA in Service at APEXThe world's largest bolometer camera for submillimetre astronomy is now in service at the 12-m APEX telescope, located on the 5100m high Chajnantor plateau in the Chilean Andes. LABOCA was specifically designed for the study of extremely cold astronomical objects and, with its large field of view and very "A large fraction of all the gas in the Universe has extremely cold temperatures of around minus 250 degrees Celsius, a mere 20 degrees above absolute...