The infrared detector circuit can be easily wired on a small veroboard or any general-purpose printed circuit board. Pin configurations of IC LM386, transistor BC547 and melody generator UM66. LM386 ...

Is America’s missile defense as robust as its weakest hard disk? Chenguang Gong, a dual citizen of the United States and ...

Simple IR detection This easy-to-construct circuit causes a standard LED bulb to glow when infrared is detected by an infrared photo-diode or phototransistor. The third, remaining part, is a ...

Plasmonics can be used to enhance mid-infrared sources, sensors and detectors for applications such as chemical sensing, thermal imaging and heat scavenging. The challenge now is to integrate ...

For decades infrared detector development has drawn on many different types of material. ... By the 1980s, second-generation versions, which included a read-out integrated circuit for signal ...

Researchers from the Graphene Flagship have developed a novel graphene-based infrared (IR) detector demonstrating record high sensitivity for thermal detection. Graphene's unique attributes pave ...

More information: Tianyi Guo et al, Spectrally Tunable Ultrafast Long Wave Infrared Detection at Room Temperature, Nano Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c03832.

This improved infrared detector is specifically intended for use with commercial IR remote control handsets. This little circuit is useful for quick go/no-go testing of just about any remote control ...