Sentences with phrase «of infrared light»

Much of the infrared light from the sun is too low in energy to be absorbed by traditional solar cells.
She then shines a beam of infrared light in one end of the tube.
During its mission, the robotic spacecraft detected flashes of infrared light coming from the planet's surface.
To understand how wrong they were, we need to look at modern measurements of the rate of absorption of infrared light by CO2.
The higher the level of alcohol in the breath sample, the higher the absorption of the infrared light.
By recording the amount of infrared light transmitted through the thread, the sensor measures the amount of local strain.
A single - cell device absorbs only about 40 percent of the infrared light that passes through.
The feeding of the black hole is a turbulent process resulting in highly variable emission of infrared light.
He was thus the first to understand that the terrestrial atmosphere absorbs some part of the infrared light coming from space.
Every chemical substance absorbs a very individual fraction of infrared light.
It shows no sign of the infrared light that indicates a new star.
Good understanding of the infrared light absorption became possible only through quantum and relativity theories.
The crystals generate a continuous beam of infrared light.
The new work, coordinated by the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology in Alpnach, Switzerland, builds on the recent discovery of the «optoacoustic effect» — namely, that cells can be stimulated by pulses of infrared light.
The Stanford team tested their technology on a custom - made solar absorber — a device that mimics the properties of a solar cell without producing electricity — covered with a micron - scale pattern designed to maximize the capability to dump heat, in the form of infrared light, into space.
Interestingly, they also were able to measure the dimming of infrared light using the 2.2 meter ESO / MPG telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile.
The Venus Express spacecraft, which orbited Venus from 2006 until earlier this year, detected flashes of infrared light coming from the planet's surface.
The team found the water signal by measuring the spectrum of infrared light radiated by the object.
Webb's ambitious design tackles the two main challenges for an infrared telescope: it has to have a large mirror in order to best capture long infrared wavelengths; it also has to be kept cold, in order to keep unwanted sources of infrared light from interfering with the emissions it attempts to detect.
In 2005, Kashlinsky led a team of astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to explore the background glow of infrared light in one part of the sky.
``... primordial black holes could also explain the uneven distribution of infrared light in the cosmic background.»
A pair of infrared lights are located along the top for use with the Kinect 2.
NOT MORDOR Flashes of infrared light detected by the Venus Express spacecraft could be signs of active volcanoes (illustrated) on Venus.
The tiny sensors, which consist of infrared light - emitting diodes (LEDs) coupled with a sensitive light detector, measure infinitesimal gradations in light in human tissue, due to changing blood volume in the microvasculature as blood circulates through the body — a process that follows in rhythm with the beating of the heart.
With the help of Infrared light, researchers are able to go in search of the small particles which shape and determine our lives.
Fernando García - García of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and colleagues measured the shadows of natural raindrops passing through a ray of infrared light.
Vanadium dioxide has the added benefit of being transparent below about 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), and absorptive of infrared light above 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit).
The images of infrared light coming from glowing hydrogen show that the cloud was compact both before and after its closest approach, as it swung around the black hole.
As a first step, during the eclipse on August 21, Samra and others will observe the corona in wavelengths of infrared light between 1 and 4 micrometers.
The Rutgers technology, co-developed by Richard Riman, distinguished professor of Materials Science and Engineering, uses a different type of infrared light than is used for imaging today.
Until recently, the wavelength of light — with a scale of several micrometers in the case of infrared light — limited the resolution of electrical conductivity measurements.
In a separate experiment conducted at the CFN, they grazed a beam of infrared light over the surface while introducing argon gas.
The air over Maunakea is exceptionally dry and still, which allows more of the infrared light to pass through and be captured by the large 8 - meter Gemini mirror.
The system performs hyperspectral imaging by projecting a series of infrared light patterns onto the scene using a laser wavelength that is absorbed by methane.
Then on subsequent passes of the laser, the selective absorption of infrared light turns the amorphous carbon into LIG.
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's AKARI infrared satellite has delivered the most detailed view yet of infrared light (heat) coming from the entire sky, which pinpoints the formation of new stars.
These silicon interconnects can direct a specific frequency of infrared light to a specific location to replace a wire.
A team led by Prof. Laszlo Veisz has developed a novel high - power laser capable of emitting bursts of infrared light — each consisting of only a few oscillation cycles — which contain 100 times as many photons per pulse as in conventional systems.
Rosenfeld and his students have developed an aerosol quantification method that uses satellite - based measurements of the infrared light reflected by clouds.
But in that single millisecond it is receiving the full dose of infrared light beamed from the LEDs and reflected by the number plate.
During the observation campaign, the researchers noted the polarization of infrared light being emitted from the brown dwarf.
CO2 absorbs some wavelengths of the infrared light now being radiated from Earth's surface.
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