As ICREA Prof. at ICFO Gerasimos Konstantatos, expert in quantum dot - graphene research comments, «we engineered the QDs to extend to
the short infrared range of the spectrum (1100 - 1900nm), to a point where we were able to demonstrate and detect the night glow of the atmosphere on a dark and clear sky enabling passive night vision.
Not exact matches
Short -
range infrared lasers could beam advanced broadband multimedia services directly into homes and offices
Optical technologies can finagle light in the
shorter - wavelength visible and
infrared range, while electromagnetic techniques can manipulate longer - wavelength radiation like microwaves and radio waves.
People have studied this in artificial semiconductor quantum wells in the very far -
infrared wavelength
range, but this is the first time it has been observed in a naturally occurring low - dimensional material and at such a
short wavelength.»
Just as visible light has a
range of wavelengths (running from red to violet), so does
infrared light: longer wavelength
infrared waves are thermal, while
short or near
infrared waves are not hot at all, in fact, you can not even feel them.