Thursday, May 25, 2006

Inexpensive Detector Sees the Invisible, In Color

An inexpensive detector developed by a NASA-led team can now see invisible infrared light in a range of "colors", or wavelengths. The detector, called a Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) array, was the world's largest (one million-pixel) infrared array when the project was announced in March 2003.

I want one!

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