IRISYS (Infrared Integrated Systems Ltd), Northampton, UK, is promoting thermal technology for intelligent building. Using its own thermal imaging cameras, the company has developed a range of ...

The presented schematic shows how to build a simple PIR motion sensor. PIR sensors allow motion sensing, it is almost always used to detect whether someone has moved in or out of the sensors range.

New thin film pyroelectric sensors, fast switching IR sources and suitable gas cell design enable new levels of ppm detection levels. Tighter legislation on environmental polutants and a public desire ...

Pyreos, the Edinburgh-headquartered maker of thin-film infrared sensors, is to develop a new and more sensitive generation of the pyroelectric devices, thanks to a near-£1 million research project ...

Recently, the progress of uncooled infrared (IR) sensors has been remarkable due to microelectronic systems (MEMS)-based pixel structure, in which free standing thermal isolation structures are ...

Electrical engineers at Duke University report they have built a record-setting pyroelectric photodetector that uses trapped light in a plasmonic nanogap to capture a signal in just 125 picoseconds ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OMRON Corporation (TOKYO:6645)(ADR:OMRNY) today announced that they have finished development work on the world's first infrared sensor manufactured with wafer-level vacuum ...

Edinburgh-based pyroelectric sensor maker Pyreos has appointed two distributors to increase its commercial presence in Asia. “These partnerships are set to increase our market share in South Korea and ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) For decades, researchers have sought to understand and harness the pyroelectric effect in biological materials. Pyroelectricity refers to the phenomenon where heating or cooling a ...